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106-262/362 "Women and Fiction in the Nineteenth Century" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-268 | Prev:106-242
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Sue Martin.
Contact: Two 1.5-hour seminars per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
- able to discuss in general terms the changing preoccupations of, and critical attitudes to, women writers of fiction in English in the course of the nineteenth century;
- able both to articulate the basic precepts of feminist literary criticism and to apply this form of critique to a given literary text, and therefore well prepared for the more advanced courses in literary and feminist theory offered by the English Department;
- able to discuss various aspects of the novel genre - narrative technique, characterisation, symbolism, structure - at a relatively sophisticated level;
- able to synthesise material from historical, fictional and literary-critical/theoretical texts into coherent analysis and argument;
- familiar with the connotations of the word 'Victorian' as well as with the major historical events of the period, and able to discuss their implications in terms of gender.
Content:
This subject is an introduction to nineteenth-century novels written by women, issues in feminist criticism and the significance of gender in literary discourse.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-268 | Prev:106-242
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-270 | Prev:106-242
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Sue Martin.
Contact: Two 1.5-hour seminars each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
- able to discuss in general terms the changing preoccupations of, and critical attitudes to, women writers of fiction in English in the course of the nineteenth century;
- able both to articulate the basic precepts of feminist literary criticism and to apply this form of critique to a given literary text, and therefore well prepared for the more advanced courses in literary and feminist theory offered by the English Department;
- able to discuss various aspects of the novel genre - narrative technique, characterisation, symbolism, structure - at a relatively sophisticated level;
- able to synthesise material from historical, fictional and literary-critical/theoretical texts into coherent analysis and argument; and
- familiar with the connotations of the word "Victorian" as well as with the major historical events of the period, and able to discuss their implications in terms of gender.
Content:
This subject is an introduction to nineteenth-century novels written by women, issues in feminist criticism and the significance of gender in literary discourse.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-270 | Prev:106-242
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