eng2bol the body in literature
THE BODY IN LITERATURE
ENG2BOL
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Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In the 1970s Luce Irigaray published her landmark text, 'Speculum of the Other Woman', which analyses the status of the sexed body in Western philosophic and psychoanalytic writing. Her conclusion, that the history of Western thought has advanced through a redical repression of the 'otherness' marked by the female body, was at the forefront of a burgeoning literature and criticism devoted to the task of thinking through the sexual blindspots of the Western tradition. In this subject we look at some of the most exciting modern and contempory novelists and theorists on the unit of the body, its representations and cultural meanings.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorSusan Gillett
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites 30 credit points of second-year English or coordinator's approval
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjects ENG3BOL
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
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Readings | Fall on your knees | Prescribed | McDonald, A. | VINTAGE 1997 |
Readings | Orlando, | Prescribed | Woolf, V. | PENGUIN 1942 |
Readings | The handmaid's tale, | Prescribed | Wood, M. | VIRGO 1987 |
Readings | The lives and loves of a she-devil | Prescribed | Weldon, F. | CORONET 1983 |
Readings | The passion | Prescribed | Winterson, J. | VINTAGE 1989 |
Readings | The passion of new Eve | Prescribed | Carter, A. | VIRAGO 1982 |
Readings | The sugar mother, | Prescribed | Jolley, E. | FREEMANTLE ARTS CENTRE PRESS 1998 |
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