AJ16061 Women in Fiction and Theory

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
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)
Mgr. Jan Čapek, Ph.D. (assistant)
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 14:00–15:40 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 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 0/12, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course will consider approaches to the significance of the feminine and the condition of women as socio-cultural constructs in aspects of British fiction, focusing on novels written by women, as well as aspects of contemporary feminist philosophy. By the end of the course students will have produced an essay analysing some aspects of these approaches and during the course they will be expected to engage in analytical discussion based on close textual reading in relation to the individual works of fiction and indicating their basic understanding of concepts introduced in the philosophical literature.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course the student will have gained a better understanding of the relevant elements of fiction considered and have produced an essay analysing relevant aspects of the literature covered as well as a more advanced understanding of the position of women in literature, as subjects and creators.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:Introductory Week 2: Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility; Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy: Feminist Philosophy Week 3: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein; Stanford: Psychoanalytic Feminism 1-2 (Freud; de Beauvoir) Week 4: Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1)Stanford: Psychoanalytic Feminism 3 (Lacan) Week 5: Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (2); Stamford: Psychoanalytic Feminism 4 (Irigaray; Kristeva) Week 6:READING WEEK: NO LESSON Week 7: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Week 8: Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (1); Stanford: Liberal Feminism Week 9: Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (2); Stanford: Continental Feminism Week 10:George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss (1); Stanford:Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Week 11:George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss (2) Stanford: Feminist Perspectives on Objectification Week 12:Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out (1): Stanford:Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy/Rape;Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (extracts) Week 13:Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out (2):Feminist Perspectives on Power/Class and Work: Judith Butler: Gender trouble (extracts)
Literature
    required literature
  • Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre London Penguin Classics
    not specified
  • Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'ubervilles London Collins 2010
  • Tey, Josephine The Daughter of Time London Arrow Books 2009
  • AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and sensibility. London: Penguin Books, 2006, 406 s. ISBN 9780141028156. info
  • SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. Edited by Patrick Nobes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 72 s. ISBN 0194230031. info
  • CHRISTIE, Agatha. Nemesis. London: HarperCollins, 1994, 222 s. ISBN 0-00-617005-6. info
  • ELIOT, George. The mill on the floss. London: Penguin Books, 1994, vii, 534. ISBN 0140620273. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. London: Grafton, 1992, 207 s. ISBN 0-586-04446-9. info
  • BARKER, Pat. Blow your house down. 1st pub. London: Virago, 1984, 170 s. ISBN 9780860683988. info
  • ELIOT, George. The mill on the floss. Edited by Gordon Sherman Haight. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981, xvi, 528. ISBN 0192815679. info
  • BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering heights. Edited by Ian Robert James Jack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976, xxvii, 370. ISBN 0192815431. info
  • GASKELL, Elizabeth. North and south. Edited by Dorothy Collin - Martin Dodsworth. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, 539 s. ISBN 0-14-043055-5. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading and weekly ninety minute seminar discussion including group or pairwork and class discussion.
Assessment methods
Assessment: The course is assessed by a combination of oral contribution & attendance (50%)and an essay (6-8 pages) relating to at least two of the texts analysed on the course(60%). The essay should be sent by attachment to my IS e-mail address.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=1942
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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