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ENGL110
Bodily Fictions
ENGL110 SP
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Next Offered in 9899 SP
This First Year Initiative course will explore the
representation of the body in nineteenth and
twentieth-century fiction. We will consider the
reproduction, metamorphosis, and mechanization of bodies in
texts by authors ranging from Franz Kafka to Margaret
Atwood. Over the course of the semester we will explore the
body as the site of political resistance and as the location
of debated over gender identity and sexual difference. We
will also take up the problem of industrialization and the
body-as-machine, reproduction and feminist dystopia, and the
fiction of racial degeneration.
MAJOR READINGS
Octavia Butler, DAWN
Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO
Margaret Atwood, THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Rebecca Harding Davis, LIFE IN THE IRON MILLS
Villiers de L'isle Adam, TOMORROW'S EVE
Franz Kafka, "THE METAMORPHOSIS," "A HUNGER ARTIST," "THE
PENAL COLONY"
Nawal el Saadawi, WOMAN AT POINT ZERO
Joanna Russ, THE FEMALE MAN
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two short papers (5 pages) an
oral presentation, and a final project (10-15 pages).
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless
preregistered students attend the first class meeting or
communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first
class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE:
Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the
Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
About the Photo:
Reference:
Larsen, Nella, QUICKSAND AND PASSING, New Jersey:
Rutgers University Press,1986
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