Faculty Of Humanities & Social Sciences
ENG2WWB / ENG3WWB, 2011
| Subject Code: | ENG2WWB |
| Alternative Subject Code: | ENG3WWB |
| Subject Short Title: | WOMEN WRITING B |
| Credit Points: | 20.0 |
| Subject Description: | This subject is an exploration of ways that women have written about key areas of female experience during the turbulent and volatile twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We read a range of prose works that deal with fantasy and testimony, mass culture and consumerism, motherhood and daughterhood, sex and education, dystopia, revolution and war. Texts include racy bestsellers, literary novellas, a graphic novel, and a blog. The emphasis is on discovering new approaches to women's literary history, and students will be introduced to the practice of experimental critical writing. |
| Prerequisites: | 30 credit points of first-year English |
| Class Requirements: | one 1-hour lecture, one 1-hour tutorial and one 1-hour online workshop per week |
| Work Experience Indicator: | Student is not undertaking work experience in industry |
| Available to 'Study Abroad' students: | Y |
Assessment:
| Assessment Type | % | Comments |
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| one 1,500-word exercise | 35 | |
| one 3,500-word essay experimental critical essay | 65 | Third year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline specific skills in their written work than second year students. |
Readings:
| Reading Type | Title | Author | Publisher |
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| Preliminary | A room of one's own and three guineas | Woolf, V. | William Collins |
| Prescribed | The getting of wisdom, | Richardson, H. | |
| Prescribed | Swastika night, | Burdekin, K. | Feminist Press |
| Prescribed | Baghdad burning: girl blog from Iraq, | Riverbend, | Marion Boyars |
| Prescribed | The prime of Miss Jean Brodie, | Spark, M. | Penguin |
| Prescribed | The memoirs of a survivor, | Lessing, D. | Knopf |
| Prescribed | Persepolis, | Satrapi, M. | Pantheon |
| Prescribed | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Loos, A | Penguin |
| Prescribed | The group, | McCarthy, M. | Harvester |
Subject Coordinator: Ms Laura Carroll
| Teaching Period | Subject Class | Location | Instance Coordinator | Instance Email |
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| Semester 2 25/07/2011 - 28/10/2011 | Day | MILDURA | Ms Laura Carroll | |
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