Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG17-312E.142
- Cím
- Választható angol irodalom szeminárium: “Tünde tévedés” – nőalakok az irodalomban
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- ECTS
- 5
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- The course is designed to show how the changing portrayal of women in certain representative texts signals profound ideological changes. Special emphasis is put on attitudes towards and assumptions of the body.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- the monstrous m/other in Beowulf Dame Siriz and the Wife of Bath (the one-sex model and Galen’s theories) Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (rape narratives) Macpherson, “Oithona” (the two-sex model) Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (giving voice to the Abject) Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (focalization: 'There is always the other side, always.')
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Grades are based on class work (attendance, reading, and participation in discussions), two in-class tests and a home-essay. The essay should discuss one particular piece (or, maybe, compare two related pieces), should use at least five critical sources, and be cca. 7 pages long.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Recommended reading: Acker, Paul, ”Horror and the Maternal in Beowulf.”PMLA 121.3 (May, 2006): 702-716. Wolfthal, Diane. “’A Hue and a Cry’: Medieval Rape Imagery and its Transformation.” The Art Bulletin, 75.1 (1993): 39-64. Donaldson, Ian. The Rapes of Lucretia: A Myth and Its Transformations. Oxford: Clarendon, 1982. Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. Bantam Books, 1975. Hitchcock, Tim. English Sexualities, 1700-1800. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Connolly, Tristanne. William Blake and the Body. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. Kamel, Rose. „"Before I Was Set Free": The Creole Wife in "Jane Eyre" and "Wide Sargasso Sea."” The Journal of Narrative Technique, 25,1 (1995), 1-22.