Women’s Writing – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 424 – B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Understand the literary history of women’s studies and feminist criticism
    • Assess the contribution of various social and historical movements so as to comprehend the contribution of women’s literature in society
12.00
Unit I: 

Simone de Beauvoir

Introduction and Section I from The Second Sex

12.00
Unit II: 

Marianne Moore

What are Years?

Nevetheless

12.00
Unit III: 

George Eliot   

Silas Marner

12.00
Unit IV: 

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

12.00
Unit V: 

Mahasweta Devi

Mother of 1084 (in translation)

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Atwood, Margaret. Survival: a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Canada: House of Anansi, 1972. Print.
  • Frickey, Pierrette. Critical Perspectives on Jean Rhys. Boulder: Lynne Rienne Publisher, 1990. Print.
  • Mill, John Stuart. Subjection of Women. New York: Cosimo, 2000.Print.
  • Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism. New York: Basic Books, 2000.Print.
  • Munro, Alice. Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998. Print.
  • Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Print.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020