AJ54013 Topics in Literature: British Women Writers at the Turn of the Millennium

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Timetable
Fri 10:00–11:35 G32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Writing as a woman about women does not necessarily involve feminism. In the course we will read four 1980s and 1990s novels by British women novelists to see how they approach the lives and concerns of women. Apart from gender issues we will explore how the novels work within the context of contemporary British writing and society. The following novels will be discussed: Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger, A. S. Byatt's Still Life, Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries, and Margaret Forster's Have the Man Had Enough.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Introduction. Week 2: Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger: Problematising history; women issues, narrative voices. Week 3: Jeanette Winterson: Gut Symmetries: The narrative voice, time and space; gender and identity. Week 4: A.S. Byatt: Still Life: Intertextuality, realism; women's lives, Britain in the 1950s. Week 5: Margaret Forster: Have the Man Had Enough: Social concerns, womens' lives; the novel as a document.
Literature
  • LIVELY, Penelope. Moon tiger. New York: Harper Perennial, 1989, 208 s. ISBN 0060972009. info
  • WINTERSON, Jeanette. Gut symmetries. London: Granta Books, 1997, 219 s. ISBN 1-86207-042-3. info
  • BYATT, A. S. Still life. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1986, 358 s. ISBN 0-14-010763-0. info
  • FORSTER, Margaret. Have the men had enough? :a novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990, 251 s. ISBN 0-14-012769-0. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky na konci tisíciletí (British Women Writers at the End of the Millennium). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1999, 206 pp. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, FF, č. 325. ISBN 80-210-2148-9. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky na přelomu tisíciletí (British Women Writers at the Turn of the Millennium). Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2003. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, 347. ISBN 80-210-3290-1. info
  • MASSIE, Allan. The novel today : a critical guide to the British novel, 1970-1989. London: Longman, 1990, vi, 97. ISBN 0582004071. info
  • MOI, Toril. Sexual/textual politics : feminist literary theory. London: Routledge, 1985, xv, 206. ISBN 0415029740. info
  • Feminist literary theory :a reader. Edited by Mary Eagleton. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996, xxiii, 438. ISBN 0-631-19734-6. info
  • GREER, Germaine. The whole woman. [Velká Británie]: Anchor, 2000, 452 s. ISBN 1-86230-057-7. info
  • EAGLETON, Terry. Literary theory :an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983, viii, 244. ISBN 0-631-13259-7. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Course participation, contributions to discussion, end-of-term essay
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5x2.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2025.
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