Women’s Writing - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324-B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Acquaint themselves with the multifaceted and complex literature by women from across the world
    • Be exposed to the diversity of women’s social and cultural experiences

     

    Course Learning Outcomes

  • The students will be able to:
  • Gain an understanding of the critical and theoretical debates surrounding women’s writing
  • Make a close examination of a selection of women’s writing chosen to emphasize on an organized theoretical, historical, national or thematic focus
  • Get an insight into women’s writing as discourse to often appropriate and subvert the representation of stereotypical feminine traits
     
12.00
Unit I: 
George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Simone de Beauvoir

“Introduction” and “Section I” from The Second Sex

 

13.00
Unit III: 
Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Maya Angelou

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

12.00
Unit V: 
Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

 

Source Books: 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Mc Cleland & Stewart, 2004.
  • Mill, John Stuart. The Subjugation of Women. Longman, 1869.
  • Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Assessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Penguin, 2000.
  • Showalter, Elaine, ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. Virago, 1986.
  • ---. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton UP, 1999.
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Academic Year: 
2020-2021