FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM IN FICTION
| Title | ΦΕΜΙΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑΜΟΝΤΕΡΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΣΤΟ ΜΥΘΙΣΤΟΡΗΜΑ / FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM IN FICTION |
| Code | Λογ6-469 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600010684 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2019 – 2020 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600148252
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Class Schedule
| Building | New wing of Philosophy (reading room) |
| Floor | Basement |
| Hall | ΑΙΘΟΥΣΑ 01 (139) |
| Calendar | Tuesday 16:00 to 18:30 |
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600148252
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
This class aims to:
1) aquaint students with theories of subjectivity, textuality and postmodernity.
2) familiarise students with the relationship between postmodernism, ideological systems and lived experience.
3) develop students’ skills as close readers, with texts being read for the way their formal features (chapter organization and structure, word choice, tone, imagery, silences, etc) elicit particular forms of emotional and intellectual response.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course studies short stories and novels by representative British and Canadian women writers in the last 20-30 years, with particular emphasis on women writers’ attempt to reconstruct female subjectivity through the use of earlier myths and fairy tales. We make comparative readings of early written fairy tales (by Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers) and recent revisions by writers such as Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter. In addition, Jeanette Winterson’s re-writing of the early books of the Old Testament in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is analysed in terms of feminist revisionism and inter-textuality. Through this process, analysis is made of changing constructions of femininity within on-going debates about its genetic, psychoanalytic and cultural determinants. The other main focus of the course is on postmodernity as a cultural phenomenon which has established new theories of authorship, readership and textuality.
Keywords
post-modernism, women's writings, subjectivity, textuality
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 39 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Interactive Teaching in Information Center | 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Written assigments | 39 | ✓ | |||
| Total | 81 |
Student Assessment
Description
Evaluation is by final exam or by final exam and a 3000 word essay (optional)
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Last Update
16-07-2019
