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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Literatura Inglesa e Xénero |
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| Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Literatura Inglesa e Xénero | Code | 613G03043 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Optativa | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 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. 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. (Greek and ancient Christian cultures too.) 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. 5. Modern Feminism(s) Compulsory readings: -Theory classes: John Vanbrugh, The Relapse Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility (and) Pride and Prejudice |
| "TGR" SEMINARS I. Gender, sex, sexuality. II. Gender, class and ethnicity. III. Gender and globalization |
1. Jamaica Kincaid (Girl): daughterhood, gender roles, race, class, etc. 2. Meridel Le Sueur (Annunciation): motherhood and social class 3. Gish Jen (Birthmates): fatherhood, masculinity, and race 4. Chitra Divakaruni (Affair): female self, cultural custom, and (in)fidelity 5. Sandra Cisneros (Selected poems): female subjectivity, (de/re)construction, and heterosexuality |
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