GÉNERO Y LITERATURA EN LENGUA INGLESA
(28511X8)
TEMARIO TEÓRICO:
1. Women’s Studies
1.1. The Woman Question. A History of Feminist Literary Criticism: From Proto-feminism (medieval feminist criticism) to Postmodern Feminism
1.2. The Canon revisited from a feminist perspective
2. Rethinking Masculinity
2.1. Masculinity Studies
2.2. Beyond hegemonic masculinity (1870-1930)
2.3. Waves
3. Queer Literary Theory
3.1. Origin and evolution
3.2. Lesbian identity
3.3. Gay identity
TEMARIO PRÁCTICO:
In-depth analysis of the following texts
I. Women’s Writing
1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892)
2. Poetry:
2.1. Anne Sexton’s ‘Housewife’ (1962) and ‘In Celebration of My Uterus’ (1969)
2.2. May Sarton’s ‘The Muse as Medusa’ (1971)
3. Carmel Bird: 'Taking My Mother's Sewing Machine Across Bass Strait' (1982)
4. Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad (2005)
II. Reinventing Masculinity
7. D.H. Lawrence: ‘The Blind Man’ (1922)
8. Raymond Carver: ‘Cathedral’ (1981)
III. Queer Literature
9. Adrienne Rich: from The Dream of a Common Language (1977), part II: Twenty-One Love Poems: ‘The Floating Poem, Unnumbered’
10. Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man (1964) and film directed by Tom Ford (2009)