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English 185C - Spring, 2011
Women's Writing III
Class Information
Instructor:
Diehl, Joanne Feit
Time:
TR 4:40-6:00
Location:
251 Olson
Description
This course will cover English language literature by women from Sarah Orne Jewett and Virginia Woolf to Adrienne Rich and Toni Morrison. In addition to reading a diverse range of imaginative literature, the class will investigate various feminist critical approaches to issues relating to the question of female authorship, including the impact of gender identity on literary production, the development of an alternative canon of women’s literature, and the representations of distinctively female developmental, cultural, and political experience.
Grading
One Short Paper, Midterm, One 5-PP., and Final Exam
Texts
The Norton Anthology: Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, 2nd edition
, ed. Gilbert & Gubar
Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader
, ed. Gilbert & Gubar
Their Eyes Were Watching God
, Zora Hurson
The Bluest Eye
, Toni Morrison