Aspects of Gender in Literature - OPNA2A121B

• Title: Aspekty genderu v literatuře
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 0 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Bernadette Higgins, M.A.
• Teacher(s): Bernadette Higgins, M.A.

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Ivana Jančovičová (27.05.2019)

This course deals with gender approaches to the study of literature. It explores the ways in which critical and in-depth reading of literary works can be approached using gender as an analytical tool, but it also goes beyond the texts themselves and addresses both male and female literary traditions. It also deals with the impact of feminism on literary studies. The course focuses on works of the 20th century, addressing the relationship between men and women as presented by authors who have reflected or questioned the cultural and social values of their times. The readings will cover four main areas: a general historical review of literature and gender, including a study of the most important theory, gender in the literature of the first half of the 20th century, including the work of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, literature reflecting the impact of the second wave Feminism in the 1960s, including works by Adrienne Rich and Doris Lessing, and literature reflecting cultural and ethnic diversity such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. This course also introduces students to various aspects of literary criticism and interpretation, paying attention to the depiction of men and women, the concept of masculinity and femininity, including postmodern interpretations of gender.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Ivana Jančovičová (19.02.2018)

Tento kurz se zabývá genderovými přístupy ke studiu literatury, a to poezie i prózy. Zkoumá způsoby, jimiž je možno přistupovat ke kritické a do hloubky zaměřené četbě literárních děl s použitím genderu jako analytického nástroje, ale jde též za texty samotné a věnuje se mužské i ženské literární tradici. Dále se zabývá dopadem feminismu na literárněvědná studia. Zaměříme se na díla 20. století a budeme se přitom věnovat otázce vztahů mezi muži a ženami, jak je podávají autoři, kteří odráželi a nebo zpochybňovali kulturní a společenské hodnoty své doby. Četba se bude týkat čtyři hlavních oblastí: obecného historického přehledu literatury a genderu, včetně studia nejvýznamnějších teoretiček (Showalterová, Moi), dále genderu v literatuře autorek první poloviny 20. století, včetně Katherine Mansfield a Virginia Woolfové, literaturou odrážející dopad tzv. druhé vlny feminismu v 60. letech 20. století, včetně děl Adrienne Richové a Doris Lessingové a literaturou odrážející kulturní a etnickou rozmanitost, jakou představují např. Toni Morrisonová, či Alice Walkerová. Tento kurz také seznamuje studenty s formami a proudy literární kritiky a interpretace, věnujími pozornost zobrazování mužů a žen, pojetí maskulinity a feminity či sexuální politice, včetně postmoderních interpretací genderu.

Descriptors

Last update: Bernadette Higgins, M.A. (30.01.2021)

Distanční výuka předmětu bude probíhat v online prostředí Zoom – studenti budou informováni o podrobnostech emailem a první hodina bude věnována seznámení s tímto prostředím. Nároky na docházku budou platit stejné jako při prezenční výuce.  

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Ivana Jančovičová (19.02.2018)

 

ADCOCK, F. ed., The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 1987.

BARRETT, M. ed., Virginia Woolf - Women and Writing, London: The Women's Press, 1996

BENHABIB, S.; BUTLER, J.; CORNEL, D.; FRASER, N. Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. London: Routledge, 1996.

BOONER, F.; GOODMAN, L.; ALLEN, R.; JAMES, L.; KING, C. eds. Imagining Women - Cultural Representation and Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press,1992.

BORDO, S.; JAGGAR, A. eds. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. Rutgers University Press, 1989.

BUTLER, J. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity, London: Routledge, 1990.

CARR, H., ed. From My Guy to Sci-fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World, London: Pandora, 1989.

CIVELLO C.A. . Patterns of Ambivalence: The Poetry & Fiction of Stevie Smith. Columbia: Camden House, 1997.

CROWLEY, H.; HIMMELWEIGHT, S. eds., Knowing Women - Feminism and Knowledge, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.

Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader, 2nd Edition

EAGLETON, M., Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader, 2nd Revised Edition.

Wiley-Blackwell, 1995.

GILBERT, S.M & GUBAR, S. The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven & London: Yale University Press,1984.

GILBERT, S.M. & GUBAR, S. Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2006.

HUMM, M. ed. Modern Feminisms, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.

JACKSON, S. Women's Studies - A Reader, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

KAPLAN, C. "Speaking/Writing/Feminism," in On Gender and Writing ed. Michelene Wandor pp 51-60. London: Pandora, 1983.

LOVELL, T. Consuming Fiction, London: Verso, 1987.

MONTEFIORE, J. Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing. London: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora Press 2003.

RADCLIFFE RICHARDS, J. The Sceptical Feminist, London: Penguin, 1991.

REES-JONES, D. Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2005.

SELDEN, R.; WIDDOWSON, P. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, 3rd edition, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993.

SHOWALTER, E. Speaking of Gender, London: Routledge, 1983.

SHOWALTER, E. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing, expanded and revised, London: Virago, 1991.

SPENDER, D. Mothers of the Novel, London: Pandora, 1987.

SPENDER, D. Man Made Language, London: Routledge, 1985.

STRINATTI, D. Introduction to Popular Culture, London: Routledge, 1995.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Ivana Jančovičová (19.02.2018)

·         What is gender – basics and historical overview? A familiarisation of some of the ideas and debates surrounding the concept of gender. A consideration of the work and impact of the “First Wave” of feminist criticism, particularly Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir.

·         Gender and language and representation in popular culture (media, advertising etc.)

          Gender and language, Semiology – signs and meanings.

·         Gender and literature. Feminist literary criticism and the questioning of the traditional literary canon, e.g. Toril Moi, Dale Spender.

·         Literature from the early 20^th century – Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin

·         Poetry – Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith

·         Literature and 'the angel in the house – Tillie Olsen, Fay Weldon, Doris Lessing (Betty Friedan, Pat Mainardi)

·         Literature from the second wave period – Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro (Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Valerie Solanas)

·         Literature of diversity – Alice Walker (Angela Davis, Barbora Smith)

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Ivana Jančovičová (19.02.2018)

Full attendance, an oral presentation at one of the seminars, the production of a paper based on your own research at the end of term. The course is seminar based and your full participation in debates will be encouraged.