Changing Woman
English 371.101

 

NOTE: This is representative of the syllabi for this course. It is not necessarily the syllabus being used in any one semester.

                                                                                                                                            

 

Required Texts:

Joan Jacob Brumberg.  The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.  Random House.

Charlotte BrontŒ.  Jane Eyre.  Penguin USA.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman.  The Yellow Wallpaper.  Oxford UP.

Zora Neale Hurston.  I Love Myself When I Am Laughing....  Feminist Press.

Mary McCarthy.  The Group.  Harvest Books.

Nicola Griffith.  Ammonite.  Ballentine Books

Assignments:

2 informal writing exercises (Sept. 24; Oct. 29)

3 essays (Oct. 15; Nov. 19; Dec. 17)

 

Grading:

Each informal writing exercise will count as 10% of your grade.  The first and second essays will each count as 20% of your grade.  The third and final essay will count as 30% of your grade.  Class participation will count as 10% of your grade.

Schedule of Readings and Assignments

 

   09.03         Introduction:  fictional and historical narratives by and about

                     women

 

   09.10         Brumberg, Introduction and Chapters One, Two, and Three

 

   09.17         C. Bronté, Volume I (Chapters 1-15)

 

   09.24         C. Bronté, Volume II (Chaps. 16-26)
                     writing exercise #1 due [2 pages — 10%]

 

   10.01         C. Bronté, Volume III (Chaps. 27-38)

 

   10.08         Brumberg, Chapters Four, Five, and Six

 

   10.15         Essay #1 due  [3-4 pages — 20%]

 

   10.22         Gilman, "Yellow Wallpaper" & other selections to be announced
                     Hurston, selections to be announced

 

   10.29         Hurston; selections to be announced
                     writing exercise #2 due [2 pages — 10%]

 

   11.05         Film:  Washington Square

 

   11.12         McCarthy

 

   11.19         McCarthy

 

   12.03         Griffith
                     Essay #2 due [3-4 pages — 20%]

 

   12.10         Griffith

 

   12.17         Essay #3 due  [6-8 pages — 30%]

 

Note:  exact schedule of readings subject to change.  I will try to hold to the dates writing exercises and essays are due.  Plan ahead!

 

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