Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
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.
Themes:
1. Key aspect of gender conception – essencialism and social constructivism
2. Overview of western tradition of gender conception
3. Key figures of gender-oriented 20th-century literature: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir
4. Cultural constructions of women
5. Language and gender
6. Feminist literary criticism
7. Revision of female literature: Adrienne Rich and obligatory heterosexuality
8. Sylvia Plath and resistence to patriarchal power
9. Alice Walker and revision of the work of Virginie Woolf
10. Womanism versus feminism
Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
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.
Themes:
1. Key aspect of gender conception – essencialism and social constructivism
2. Overview of western tradition of gender conception
3. Key figures of gender-oriented 20th-century literature: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir
4. Cultural constructions of women
5. Language and gender
6. Feminist literary criticism
7. Revision of female literature: Adrienne Rich and obligatory heterosexuality
8. Sylvia Plath and resistence to patriarchal power
9. Alice Walker and revision of the work of Virginie Woolf
10. Womanism versus feminism
Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
BARRETT, Michelle. Virginia Woolf on Women and Writing. Womens Print Ltd, 1993. ISBN 978-0704338395.
BOONER, F., GOODMAN, L., ALLEN, R., JAMES, L., KING, C. (eds.) Imagining Women: Cultural Representation and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0745609744.
BUTLER, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. London: Routledge, 2011. ISBN 9780415610155
GILBERT, S. M., GUBAR, S. (eds.) The Norton anthology of literature by women : the traditions in English (3rd Edition).New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN-10: 0393930157.
GILBERT, S. M., GUBAR, S. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0300084580.
GILBERT, S. M., GUBAR, S. (eds.) Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0393927900.
HUMM, Maggie. Modern Feminisms. Columbia University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0231080736.
MOI, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (2nd edition). London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 978-0415280129
SHOWALTER, E. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing, expanded and revised. Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0691004761.
Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
BARRETT, Michelle. Virginia Woolf on Women and Writing. Womens Print Ltd, 1993. ISBN 978-0704338395.
BOONER, F., GOODMAN, L., ALLEN, R., JAMES, L., KING, C. (eds.) Imagining Women: Cultural Representation and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0745609744.
BUTLER, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. London: Routledge, 2011. ISBN 9780415610155
GILBERT, S. M., GUBAR, S. (eds.) The Norton anthology of literature by women : the traditions in English (3rd Edition).New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN-10: 0393930157.
GILBERT, S. M., GUBAR, S. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0300084580.
GILBERT, S. M., GUBAR, S. (eds.) Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0393927900.
HUMM, Maggie. Modern Feminisms. Columbia University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0231080736.
MOI, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (2nd edition). London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 978-0415280129
SHOWALTER, E. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing, expanded and revised. Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0691004761.
