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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  Literatura Inglesa e Xénero
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Temas Subtemas
1. The politics of writing: The question of gender in English literature
2. Myths of womanhood (and manhood).
3. Gender and the canon.
4. Introduction to early women writers. Reception and censorship. Pros and amateurs.
5. Novels and political writings by women in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
6.The 20th century: Female aesthetics. 		1. Characters and writers. The male perspective.
2. Heroes and Heroines in western culture. A brief view, focusing on the periods from Elizabethan to modern times.
3. The role of Angloamerican/French feminist criticism and Gay Studies.
4. Individual writers. Aphra Behn, Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Moore, Jane Austen and the eighteenth-century novel by women.
Texts to be read in full:
Aphra Behn. The Feigned Courtesans
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility
5. An introduction to individual writers.
6. Essays by V. Woolf: Professions for women (1931).
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