Women’s Writing - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 - B
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Acquaint students with the multifaceted and complex literature by women from across the world
  • Investigate the diversity of women’s social and cultural experiences

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

  • Analyse the critical and theoretical debates surrounding women’s writing
  • Evaluate women’s writing chosen to emphasize on an organized theoretical, historical, national or thematic focus
  • Appreciate women’s writing as discourse to often appropriate and subvert the representation of stereotypical feminine traits
  • Appraise the representation of culture, identity, history, constructions of nationhood, etc. in the literary texts

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

George Eliot   

The Mill on the Floss

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Simone de Beauvoir

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

 

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Maya Angelou

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Mc Cleland & Stewart, 2004.

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjugation of Women. Longman Publishers, 1869.

Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysisand Feminism: A Radical Assessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Penguin Books, 2000.

Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1999.

---. ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. Virago, 1986.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022