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ENGL110

Bodily Fictions ENGL110 FA

Not Currently Offered

In this course we will approach the topic of bodily fictions from two perspectives: we will study representations of bodies in various works of fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, and we will explore the multiple cultural fictions routinely produced and reproduced about such bodies. Some of the themes to be examined include: literary representation of hysteria, foreign bodies and the politics of race, diseased bodies and fictions of health and normalcy, discipline and the modern body, feminist theory and reproductive technologies.

MAJOR READINGS

Selected authors may include: Margaret
Atwood, Malek Alloula, Mary Shelley, Judith Butler, Sigmund
Freud, Sylvia Plath, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Sander
Gilman, Jean Rhys, Angela Carter, Gayatri Spivak, Audre
Lorde, Octavia Butler.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Frequent short papers, oral presentation, and one longer final project.

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-22-1999

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