Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG-225E/P10
- Cím
- Male and Female Roles and Discourses in Early Modern England
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- The course offers analyses of primary sources with a strong focus on questions of cultural history and literature, supported by the discussion of some relevant academic articles. The aim of the course is to provide students with a general overview of gender issues in early modern England, through the close reading of literary and non-literary texts (excerpts from popular pamphlet literature). Students are encouraged to discuss and revisit gender issues in Renaissance and present-day contexts.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The precise content of the course is subject to slight changes, since it is a huge and varied field of research, and the instructor defines the precise list of set readings each semester. (The actualised list of readings can always be found at seas3.elte.hu course catalogue.) Shakespeare’s plays and Donne’s poems, broadside ballads and verse pamphlets always form the firm basis of the course, however, methods and articles in cultural historical research are also discussed. The main emphasis of the course falls on the expectations and norms concerning both male and female genders, and especially on the breaking of the norm in eg. discourses of witchcraft, shrew-taming and problematized masculinity.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Reading of set texts is essential. One short presentation on one of the texts or an academic article. Oral exam or final essay (5-6 pp), according to students’ individual choices, made 3 weeks before the end of the course.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- The following texts may be discussed in class but the specific list of set texts varies each semester. For more information see seas3.elte.hu. Anon. Hic-mulier/Haec-vir (excerpts) Anon.: Newes from Scotland (excerpts) Anon: A Merry Jest of a shrewd and cursed wife, lapped in Morrel’s skin, for her good behaviour (ballad) Geneva Bible, King James Bible (excerpts) John Donne: To his Mistress Going to Bed, The Apparition, The Ecstasy Nicholas Breton: Pasquil’s Mistress (excerpts) Thomas Middleton-Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Reginald Scot: The Discovery of Witchcraft (excerpts) William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night William Shakespeare: Macbeth William Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale Pages from emblem books by Peacham, Wither and Whitney SUGGESTED SECONDARY READINGS Anna Bayman, “’Large hands, wide eares, and piercing sights’: The ’discoveries’ of the Elizabethan and Jacobean witch pamhlets”, Cahiérs Elisabéthains, 16/1, 26-45. Bernard Capp: When Gossips Meet, Women, family and neighbourhood in early modern England (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003) David Cressy: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England. Tales of Discord and Dissension (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000) Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England. An Anthology of Renaissance Writing, eds. Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott (New York, Columbia University Press, 2000) Penny Gay: As She Likes It. Shakespeare’s Unruly Women (London, New York, Routledge, 2002) Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Discourses 1500-1700, eds. David Wootton and Graham Holderness (New York, Palgrave, 2010) Anu Korhonen, “The Witch in the Alehouse Imaginary Encounters in Cultural History” in J. Kusber, M. Dreyer, J. Rogge, A. Hütig, eds. Historische Kulturwissenschaften. Poistionen, Praktiken und Perspektive. (Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2010) pp. 181-205