AJ16061 Women in Fiction and Theory

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Thu 15:50–17:25 G32
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This semester's course will consider approaches to the significance of the feminine and the masculine as socio-cultural constructs in aspects of British poetry and fiction. By the end of the course students will have produced an essay analysing some aspects of these approaches and during the course they will be expected to engage in analytical discussion based on close textual reading in relation to the individual poems and works of fiction, considering how how the central female figures are deployed in relation to other elements in the literature considered.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: 22.9: ORIENTATION WEEK: NO LESSON Week 2: 29.9: Introductory:( plus Troubadours; Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarch - any reading will be provided during lesson) Week 3: 6.10: Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice (1); Wyatt: 1) Whoso list to hunte; 2)They flee from me. Week 4: 13.10: Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice (2); Shakespeare: Sonnets 94,129,130: Week 5: 20.10: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: Jonson: Celebration of Charis Week 6: 27.10: C.Bronte: Jane Eyre (1); Crashaw: Wishes to His Supposed Mistress Week 7: 3.11: C.Bronte: Jane Eyre(2); Swift; The Lady's Dressing Room; Pope: To A Lady (Epistle II of The Characters of Women) Week 8: 10.11: G. Eliot: The Mill on The Floss (1); Byron: Don Juan Canto I Week 9: 17.11: PUBLIC HOLIDAY NO LESSON Week 10: 24.11: G.Eliot: The Mill on The Floss (2):Tennyson: Maud Week 11: 1.12: T. Hardy: The Well-Beloved (1):Thomas Hardy; At Castle Bottere Week 12: 8.12: St Mawr: D.H. Lawrence:Lui et elle (& other tortoise poems); Pound: Canto XXXVI/ Cavalcanti -Donna mi pregha Week 13: 15.12: A.Tennyson (parts 1-3): Maud: J.H. Prynne: Her Wild Weasels Returning
Literature
    required literature
  • Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre London Penguin Classics
  • ELIOT, George. Daniel Deronda. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1990, 416 s. info
  • ELIOT, George. Daniel Deronda. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1990, 408 s. info
  • ELIOT, George. Daniel Deronda. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1990, 409 s. info
  • HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The scarlet letter :a romance. Edited by Nina Baym - Thomas E. Connolly. New York: Penguin Books, 1983, 285 s. ISBN 0-14-039019-7. info
  • BEDNAROWSKA, Dorothy. Henry James : the portrait of a lady. London: British Council, 1974, 10 s. info
    not specified
  • BROWNING, Robert. The poetical works of Robert Browning. London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 506 s. info
  • Haraway, Donna J Simians, Cyborgs and Women London Free Association Books 1991
  • Greer, Germaine The Female Eunuch
  • Woolf, Virginia A Room of One's Own London Faber and Faber
  • MARVELL, Andrew. The poems of Andrew Marvell. Edited by James Reeves - Martin Seymour-Smith. London: Heinemann, 1969, vi, 195 s. ISBN 0-435-15071-5. info
  • The world of W.B. Yeats. Edited by Robin Skelton - Ann Saddlemyer. Rev. ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967, x, 231. info
  • JONSON, Ben. The poems of Ben Jonson. Edited by Bernard H. Newdigate. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1936, xxviii, 42. info
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. The Noel Douglas replicas William Shakespeare Sonnets. London: Noel Douglas, 1926, [76] s. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading and weekly ninety minute seminar discussion including group or pairwork.
Assessment methods
Assessment: Oral contribution and attendance(40%) and essay (5-8 pages comparing aspects of at least two of the texts analysed on the course(60%).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=1942
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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