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This course offers an introduction to women writers and their work, over a period of four hundred years. It will examine women's lives, and the social, political and cultural conditions in which they wrote. The texts selected exemplify a wide range of genres, and so challenge two main misconceptions: first, that from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, women wrote only in private texts such as journals and letters; second, that more recently, their greatest success has been within the framework of the novel. Novels wil be studied, but also early modern and contemporary poetry, speeches, drama, polemics, essays, short stories and film. The development of feminist literary criticism will be traced to address issues raised during the course: the representation of women in literature; the notion of women's writing; and the response and contribution of women's writing to cultural change.
This course offers an introduction to women writers and their work, over a period of four hundred years. It will examine women’s lives, their texts, and the social, political and cultural conditions in which they wrote. The texts selected exemplify a wide range of genres, and so challenge two main misconceptions: first, that from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, women wrote only in private texts such as journals and letters; second, that more recently, their greatest success has been within the framework of the novel. Novels will be studied, but also early modern and contemporary poetry, speeches, drama, polemics, essays, short stories and film. The development of feminist literary criticism will be traced to address issues raised during the course: the representation of women in literature; the notion of women’s writing; and the response and contribution of women’s writing to cultural change. Authors we shall read include: Queen Elizabeth I of England, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Virginia Woolf, Carol Ann Duffy, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Jane Campion and Rose Tremain.
By the end of the course students will have:Read critically a variety of texts written by women from the Renaissance to the twenty-first centuryEngaged with various approaches to textual analysis, including contextual considerationsAcquired an understanding of the issues debated around the notion of ‘gender difference’
GEND111, CULT111
CULT111, GEND111
Shirley Roberts
Course Outline
Domestic fee $562.00
International fee $2,280.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Humanities .