30030 - English Literature 1 (LM) (A)

Course contents

Feminist Methodology: Interdisciplinary  Methods in Women's Studies

By analysing  some primary sources written by women during the last two centuries, the course intends to:

 

1. Familiarize the students with the methodological debates within Women's and Gender studies in a trans-disciplinary perspective.

2. Explain the category of gender, class, ethnicity, ideology, power, memory, sexuality, generational relationships, and their interconnections.

3. Analyse the category of “  Differance /Difference” in relation to the category of Gender.

4. Introduce the students to comparative and multicultural analysis within a Gender perspective. In this respect, the lecturer will interface literature with films and media studies.

5. To deconstruct the canon formation within the Western tradition.

6. Facilitate the students to re-read and re-vision the issues related to women's cultural memory.

7. To enable the students to investigate texts and sources through epistemological approaches associated with standpoint theory and “situated knowledge”

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

The final Syllabus and Reading List will be available on the first day of class. They might be further elaborated

according to the class level and needs.

 

The final reading list of the primary

sources will be available on the first day of class.

 

A Room of One's Own, 1929 (V. Woolf)

Three Guineas , 1938 (V. Woolf)

The Voyage out   1915 (V.Woolf)

The Bloody Chamber 1979 (Angela Carter)  

Possession: A Romance , 1990, (Antonia S. Byatt)

The  Well of Loneliness, 1928 (Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall ),

 

 

Please NB. That the Final Bibliography of the secondary sources will be available on the first days of class:

 

Critical works: (students will be requested to choose texts from the list under the supervision of the lecturer):

 

Baccolini, Raffaella, Vita Fortunati, M. Giulia Fabi, Rita Monticelli, (eds) Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie. Bologna: Clueb. (selected essays) , 1997.

 

Baccolini Raffaella e Fortunati Vita, “Metamorfosi e Permanenze nella crtitca femminista”, in Baccolini, Fabi, Fortunati, Monticelli (a cura di) Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, pp. 9- 16

 

Vita Fortunati, “Introduzione”, in Baccolini, Fabi, Fortunati, Monticelli (a cura di) Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, Bologna, Clueb, 1997, pp. 17-36

 

Kolodny, Annette, 1975, “Some notes on Defining a ‘Feminist Literary Criticism'”, in Critical Inquiry, 2, 1. “Alcune considerazioni sulla definizione di una ‘critica letteraria femminista”, in Baccolini, Fabi, Fortunati, Monticelli (a cura di), Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, Bologna, Clueb, 1997, pp. 37-63.

 

Jehlen, Myra, 1981, “Archimedes and the paradox of Feminist Criticism”, in Signs, 6, 4. “Archimede o il paradosso della critica femminista”, in Baccolini, Fabi, Fortunati, Monticelli (a cura di), Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, Bologna, Clueb, 1997, pp. 65-103.

 

Kamuf, Peggy, 1980, “Replacing Feminist Criticism” in Diacritics 12, 42-47. “Sostituire la critica femminista”, in Baccolini, Fabi, Fortunati, Monticelli (a cura di) Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, Bologna, Clueb, 1997, pp. 161-171.

 

Miller, Nancy K., 1982, “The Text's Heroine: a Feminist Critic and Her Fictions” in Diacritics 12, 48-53. “L'eroina del testo: una studiosa femminista e le sue finzioni”, in Baccolini, Fabi, Fortunati, Monticelli (a cura di), Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, Bologna, Clueb, 1997, pp. 173-184.

 

Fortunati Vita, Gilberta Golinelli, Rita Monticelli, “Introduzione”, in Vita Fortunati, Gilberta Golinelli, Rita Monticelli (a cura di ), Studi di genere e memoria culturale/Women and Cultural Memory, Bologna, Clueb, pp. 9-35

 

Braidotti Rosi, “Memoria minoritaria e nomadismi sostenibili”, in Vita Fortunati, Gilberta Golinelli, Rita Monticelli (a cura di ), Studi di genere e memoria culturale/Women and Cultural Memory, Bologna, Clueb, pp. 37-58.

 

Cardinal Agnès, “Women's Writing on War: Reflections on the Canon and the Test of Time”, in Vita Fortunati, Gilberta Golinelli, Rita Monticelli (a cura di ), Studi di genere e memoria culturale/Women and Cultural Memory, Bologna, Clueb, pp. 113-122.

 

Fortunati Vita, “Memory and Aging a Revaluation of the Crone in Women's Literature, in Vita Fortunati, Annamaria Lamarra ed Eleonora Federici (a cura di) The Controversial Women's Body, Bologna,  Bononia University Press, 2005, pp. 157-170

 

Greer Germaine, “Serenity and Power”, in Vita Fortunati, Annamaria Lamarra ed Eleonora Federici (a cura di), The Controversial Women's Body, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2005, pp. 133-156.

 

Baccolini Raffaella. Le prospettive di genere. Discipline, Soglie, Confini, Bologna, Bononia UP (selected essays):

Baccolini Raffaella, “Leggere da donne, leggere le donne: le critiche letterarie femministe”.

 

Francesca Molfino, “Gli intrecci tra psicoanalisi e movimento delle donne”.

 

Susan Stanford Friedman, “Globalizzazione e teoria culturale femminista: identità in movimento”.

 

Vita Fortunati, “Gli studi di genere e il comparatismo: un confronto critico tra discipline”.

 

Braidotti, Rosi, 1994, Nomadic Subjects. Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory . New York: Columbia UP.,1995, Soggetto Nomade. Femminismo e crisi della modernità, Roma: Donzelli. (selected chapters)

 

Haraway, Donna. J., 1988, “Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, Feminist Studies, 14:3 (Fall 1988), pp. 575-99, also in M. Lederman and I. Bartsch, eds., 2001, The Gender and Science Reader, Routledge, London and New York., pp. 169-88.

 

Hirsch, Marianne, Smith, Valerie, eds, 2002, Signs, n. 28, 1 (Spec. Issue Gender and Cultural Memory). (selected chapters)

 

 

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