Courses (reading list)

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)