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| IDE6150 | Women and Writing | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki ÇIRAKLI | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The students will gain knowledge about the women writers and their works ranging from Medieval period until today. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | talk about important women writers and their works ranging from medieval period until today | 1,3,5,10 | | | PO - 2 : | have knowledge about the narrative style of women writers and the topics they handled in their works | 1,2,10 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course is designed to explore the relationship between women and writing within the framework of contemporary theories of philosophy, psychology, literature and discourse. The subcategories to be discussed in class and expanded in graduate papers will include: Ecriture feminine/writing the body, authorship sexuality/textuality, women writers and literary genres, women writers and tradition, subversive categories, women and rage, women and madness, questions of subjectivity, representation, feminist dialogics, otherness etc. One living woman writer will be invited to class her work with students. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | The Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich
The Book of Margery Kempe (1436), Margery Kempe
| | | Week 3 | The Tragedy of Mariam (1613), Elizabeth Cary | | | Week 4 | ?A Nocturnal Reverie? and ?Ardelia to Melancholy?, Anne Finch (1661-1720) | | | Week 5 | Oroonoko (1688), Aphra Behn | | | Week 6 | ?A Vindication of the Rights of Women? (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft | | | Week 7 | Mansfield Park (1814), Jane Austen | | | Week 8 | Frankenstein (1823), Mary Shelly | | | Week 9 | ?Silly Novels by Lady Novelits? (1856), George Eliot | | | Week 10 | The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin | | | Week 11 | Bliss (1920), The Garden Party (1922), Katherine Mansfield | | | Week 12 | ?A Room of One?s Own? (1929), Virginia Woolf | | | Week 13 | ?The Animals in That Country? (1968), Happy Endings (1983), Margaret Atwood | | | Week 14 | Wise Children (1991), Angela Carter | | | Week 15 | The Bluest Eye (1970), Desdemona (2011), Toni Morrison | | | Week 16 | Make-up | | | |
| 1 | Moi, Toril. Sexual Textual Politics: Feminist Theory | | | 2 | Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own | | | 3 | Showalter, Elaine. "The Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" The Female Tradition" | | | 4 | Kolodny, Anette. "Dancing through the Minefield: Some observations on the Theory, Practice, Politics of Feminist Criticism. | | | 5 | Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" "Literary Paternity" "Tradition and the Female Creativity" | | | 6 | Russ, Joanna. "What can a heorine do? or why women can't write"Felman, Shoshana. "Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy" | | | 7 | Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "On Female Identity and Writing by Women"Cixous, Helene. "The Laugh of the Medusa" "Sorties" | | | 8 | Irigaray, Luce. "This Sex which is not one" | | | 9 | Kristeva, Julia. "Women's Time" | | | 10 | Jones, Ann Rosalind. "Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l'Ecriture Feminine" | | | |
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