Course: Gender and Literature

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Course title Gender and Literature
Course code KAJ/PGLIA
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Klapcsik Sándor, Ph.D.
  • Světlíková Anna, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Marková Michaela, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Vernyik Zénó, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Palatinus Dávid Levente, Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction 2. Gender, sex, and sexuality 3. Queering gender, queer theory 4. Gender, race, and ethnicity 5. Femininity. Feminism 6. Postmodern feminism 7. Masculinity, masculinities 8. Literature and gender 9. Gender and fiction 10. The madwoman in the attic 11. Gender and drama 12. Gender and poetry 13. Presentations of the research project. Discussions.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Seminár
Learning outcomes
The aim of this subject is to familiarize students with the gender analysis of culture, literature, art and language. The course is comprised by theoretically-oriented, lecture-based lessons, followed by the practical analysis of literary works or films.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student's linguistic performance analysis

Requirements: Active participation in seminars. Research project - a PowerPoint presentation with video/audio commentary
Recommended literature
  • Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-415-96923-9.
  • Estés, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. New York: Ballantine, 1992. ISBN 0-345-37744-3.
  • Gates, Henry Louis, ed. Reading Black, Reading Feminist. New York: Penguin, 1990. ISBN 0-452-01045-4.
  • Kalof, Linda, ed. A Cultural History of Women. Vols 1-6.. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN 9781847884756.
  • Lennon, Kathleen, and Rachel Alsop. Gender Theory in Troubled Times. Madford: Polity, 2020. ISBN 978-0-7456-8301-0.
  • Pacheco, Anita, ed. A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. Malden: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 0-631-21702-9.
  • Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women. New York: Perennial, 2002. ISBN 0-06-051218-0.


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