Update: 2004-02-24About the Course
Introduction and New Criticism | ||
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Introduction:
Text and Context Approach : |
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New
Critical approach to poems and narratives:
poems on gendered quests
in nature in 19th century British culture Romantic Quest: William Wordsworth |
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Feminism and Gender Studies | ||
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Oppression of Women -- A Historical Overview 1. John Berger: Ways of Seeing 2. Edgar Allan Poe: The Oval Portrait' 3. The Pre-Raphaelite Women 4. In an Artist's studio: C. Rossetti's poems; Dante Gabriell Rossetti's poem and paintings |
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Women's Movement & Women's Discourse (French Feminism) |
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5. | Post-Feminisms and Lesbianism | |
6. | 'Language' & Contemporary Feminist Artists: Cindy Sherman; Barbara Kruger | |
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Structuralism and Post-structuralism |
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Structuralism--Basic
Concepts Surfacing chaps: 16-18 Linguistic (De-) Constructions of Meanings and Subjectivities |
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Structuralist
Reading of Narratives; Propp & Greimas
Structuralist
Reading of Narratives; Propp & Greimas |
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Semiotics
and "The Myth Today" Semiotics and "The Myth Today" e.g. Some 19th-century Landscape Paintings & the use of nature in commercials |
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From Structuralism to Poststructuralism: Binary Opposition & Deconstruction |
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Examples:
e.g. Deconstruction
example: "The Blind Man" |
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IV. Ecocriticism: Nature Beyond Language? |
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Examples: "Immortality Ode," "To Autumn" |
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some poems by Mary Oliver;
Sand County Almanac: "The Land Ethic" |
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