THE KING'S UNIVERSITYTHE KING'S UNIVERSITY| COURSE NUMBER: | ENGL 366 | |||||||||||||||||
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| COURSE TITLE: | Women's Writing Then and Now | |||||||||||||||||
| NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: | Dr. Elizabeth Willson Gordon | |||||||||||||||||
| CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: | credits 3 (hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) | |||||||||||||||||
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | What creative strategies have women used historically to get their
writing published? What does gender matter when one is writing or
reading a text? This course explores both a history of women and the
printed word and a reflection on contemporary issues: genre,
authorship, canonicity and tradition, material production of texts, and
relations to feminist thought. By reading a wide selection of texts
-devotional works, polemical essays, diary entries, poems, "serious"
novels and "chick lit" - this course considers women's writing today in
the context of the women who came before. Prerequisites: ENGL 215 | |||||||||||||||||
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES: | This course will explore a number of interrelated issues about women’s writing including genre, authorship, canonicity and tradition, material production of texts, and relations to feminist thought. We will read a variety of works (polemical essays, short stories, poems and novels) but the emphasis will be on the novel as this has been a form associated with women, and the form writing takes will be one of the ongoing topics of discussion. We will also discuss types of life writing and the relation of works of fiction to authorial biography. The course will place the texts in various historical, literary, and theoretical contexts. The texts range in focus, time of publication, as well as author nationality, but the list is necessarily not equally representative of the broad category of “women’s writing.” The texts chosen, however, speak to each other and to issues in complex, conflicting, and interesting ways. Each text also takes up some aspect of women’s lives and experiences but the boundaries around what should be included are by no means settled. Students will engage with the course material in a variety of ways including presentations, leading discussions, papers, responding to peers’ work, informal writing assignments, etc. | |||||||||||||||||
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