AJ14063 Virginia Woolf: Woman, Writer

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 17:30–19:05 G25
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course will consider most of the major novels by Virginia Woolf as well as aspects of her early work and non-fictional writing. By the end of the course the student will have written an essay demonstrating their ability to analyse aspects of Virginia Woolf's major fiction.Students will be expected to demonstrate and develop the skills of developing a specific point or argument supported by provision and apposite analysis of related textual material, both orally, in class, and in written form in their essay.In terms of content, students will be expected to discern ways in which Woolf's conception of the significance of life as creative movement both develops and overlaps with comparable projects, particularly in the British, but also in the French and German contexts of the same period and how this preoccupation interlinks with questions of gender, sexuality, individuality, and with relations between word, thought and sensation and thereby with the process of writing.
Learning outcomes
A participant having taken the course should emerge with a better knowledge of the relation between elements of Modernist fiction and thinking and the particular perspective provided by its most oustanding English female proponent in this area. In addition, they should have gained a sense of how to closely analyse the prose and narrative structure of a fictional text in some detail.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:Introductory Week 2:The Voyage Out (1) Week 3:The Voyage Out (2) Week 4:Jacob's Room (1) Week 5:Jacob's Room (2) Week 6: Mrs Dalloway (1) Week 7: READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 8:Mrs Dalloway (2) Week 9: To the Lighthouse (1) Week 10:To the Lighthouse (2) Week 11: Orlando Week 12:The Waves (1) Week 13:The Waves (2);A Room of One's Own
Literature
  • To the light house (Přít.) : Jacob's room ; Mrs Dalloway ; To the light house ; The waves. info
  • DUSINBERRE, Juliet. Virginia Woolf's renaissance :woman reader or common reader? Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1997, xiii, 281. ISBN 0-333-68104-5. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. The diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981, xii, 371 s. ISBN 0-14-005283-6. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. The diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, xxviii, 35. ISBN 0-14-005282-8. info
  • BELL, Quentin. Virginia Woolf :a biography. London: Hogarth Press, 1972, 300 s. ISBN 0-7012-0371-4. info
  • MARDER, Herbert. Feminism & art : a study of Virginia Woolf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968, ix, 190. info
  • MOODY, Anthony David. Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1963, 119 s. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. The years : a novel. London: Pan Books, 1948, 327 s. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. Between the acts. London: Hogarth Press, 1941, 256 s. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. A room of one's own. New ed. London: Hogarth Press, 1931, 172 s. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading,and weekly, ninety minute seminar discussion and groupwork.
Assessment methods
Assessment will be by essay (5-8 pages)(60%), and oral contribution (40%). The essay should be clearly related to texts taught on the course. Essays should be sent to me by e-mail attachmnent and submitted to the essay vault. IN EITHER CASE PLEASE NOTIFY ME BY E-MAIL WHEN YOU SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=863
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Spring 2015.
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