922-192 LaTrobe-MG4GIL:Gender Issues in M.Gk Lit

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Admission to Fourth Year combined Honours.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

In this subject students should develop research and analytical skills by exploring the representation of gender relations in a variety of literary texts. The construction of male images and masculinities, female images and femininities, sexualities, gender roles, including motherhood and fatherhood, are studied in selected works of modern Greek literature. Students who complete the subject should have developed research and analytical skills in terms of the representation of gender relations in literature; be acquainted with the theoretical framework for such research; and have significantly enhanced their skills in the comprehension and discussion of Greek texts.

Assessment

A 2000 word seminar paper and a 3000 word essay.

Prescribed Texts

• O Elytis, What I love. Copper Canyon Press 1986.
• N Kazantzakis, O kapetan Michalis. E. Kazantzaki 1974.
• M Karapanou, I Kassandra kai o lykos. Ermis 1976.
• K Mitropoulou, I teleftaia parastasi. Govotsis 1985.
• K Tachtsis, Ta resta. Ermis 1977.
• E Vakalo, Oi palavres tis kyra-Rodalinas. Ypsilon 1984.
• G Xenopoulos, Stella Violanti. Vlassi 1991.
• A Zei, I Arravoniastikia tou Achillea. Kedros 1987.