Engl436/636:
Feminist Literary Criticism

Engl436/636
Feminist Literary Criticism
Fall, 1997
Prof. Elisa Kay Sparks
MWF 1:25
3 Credits: Humanities

• A general introduction to both feminism and literary criticism, as well as a survey of the specific field of feminist literary criticism. Organized chronologically and thematically, the course will examine the ways in which developments in feminist criticism reflect trends in mainstream twentieth-century literary criticism.

• Topics covered include:
  • Virginia Woolf: The First Feminist Critic
  • FEMINIST CRITIQUE
    • Articulating Misogyny
    • Feminism and Psychoanalysis
    • Feminist Archetypal Criticism
  • RECOVERY/ GYNOCRITICSM
    • Rewriting Literary History
    • The British Tradition
    • The American Tradition
    • French Feminism
  • REASSESSMENT
    • Marxist Feminism
    • Feminism and Colonialism
    • African-American Feminist Criticism
    • Lesbian Feminist Criticism
• Authors covered include:
  • Virginia Woolf,
  • Simone DeBeauvoir,
  • Betty Friedan,
  • Kate Millet,
  • Annette Kolodny,
  • Nina Baym,
  • Gilbert and Gubar,
  • Elaine Showalter,
  • Barbara Christian,
  • Nancy Chodorow,
  • Bonnie Zimmerman,
  • Alice Walker,
  • Helene Cixous,
  • Toril Moi.
    
• For Exact Readings See Core List for 1996

• Requirements: journals, research paper, midterm, final

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