Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
Graduate in English Studies |
Subjects |
GENDER AND LITERATURE IN ENGLISH |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2013_14 |
Subject | GENDER AND LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | Code | 12274217 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Optional | First |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
What is Humanism and in what way does it affect our perception of knowledge? | * The "Great I Am": a metaphysical presence. * Phallocentricity * Decentering the Centre |
Gender & Genre | * Defining "Genius". * Acts of creativity. * Defining the Author. * Death of the Author. |
Masculinities & Homophobia | * Michel Foucault on Sexuality & Power * 19th Century homophobia |
Sexual Dissidence according to Jonathan Dollimore | * Centred and Decentred Desires: Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray". |
Gay, Lesbian and Queer politics | * Constructions of subjectivities |
Lesbian Writing: Subjectivity and Desire. | * Jeanette Winterson, "Written On the Body" |
Epistemology of the Closet | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
Reading and Writing from a Slant | A Selection of Poetry and Short Stories |