ENGL281

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ENGL281

Selected Women Writers ENGL281 SP

Crosslistings: WMST281

Section	Class Size	*Available	Times	POI	Prereq
1	60	0	Times: .T.T... 2:40PM-4:00PM;	No	No

*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for the Blue Add phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration. (Last Updated on Tue Aug 10 05:00:21 EDT 1999 )

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, PERSUASION
Charlotte Bronte, JANE EYRE
Jean Rhys, THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Angela Carter, THE BLOODY CHAMBER
Maxine Hong Kingston, THE WOMAN WARRIER
Marilyn Robinson, HOUSEKEEPING
Toni Morrison, BELOVED
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

Section 01: Crosby, C; Times: .T.T... 2:40PM- 4:00PM;; Grading Mode: Mixed; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 2, So: 3, Fr: 4; Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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