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ENGL281
Selected Women Writers
ENGL281 SP
Crosslistings: WMST281
Next Offered in 9899 SP
Women have always written novels and read them and the novel
as a genre has much to do with modern Western
conceptualizations of "women." Yet as writers and readers
women have had an uneasy relationship to dominant literary
and critical traditions. Reading works by 19th-and
20th-century British and United States women novelists and
critical/theoretical texts which ask how "women" come to
"be," we will consider how to read the relationship of women
and writing.
MAJOR READINGS
Jane Austen, EMMA
Charlotte Bronte, JANE EYRE
George Eliot, ADAM BEDE
Jean Rhys, THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Gwendolyn Brooks, MAUD MARTHA
Angela Carter, THE BLOODY CHAMBER
Maxine Hong Kingston, THE WOMAN WARRIER
Marilyn Robinson, HOUSEKEEPING
Toni Morrison, BELOVED
Amy Tan, THE JOY-LUCK CLUB
Essays by Helen Cixous, Stephen Heath, Shoshana Felman, Luce
Irigaray, Angela Davis, June Jordan and others.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two five-page papers and a
take-home final exam.
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 Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-03-1998
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