CMLT-C 340 WOMEN IN WORLD LITERATURE (3 CR.)
Study of creative women writers who deal with unconventional themes. Comparison of images of female characters in 20th-century novels by French, English, and American women writers who challenge literary or social conventions. Focus on fiction or on another genre (e.g. drama, poetry, essay) each time course is offered.
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 9651 | Open | 4:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m. | TR | BH 307 | McGerr R |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 9651: Total Seats: 30 / Available: 13 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- Above class meets with MEST-M 390, MEST-M 502, and CMLT-C 523
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Topic: Women & lit in medieval europe
This course explores the rich tradition of texts authored by women in medieval Europe. Our readings include texts from a wide range of genres in which women sought to make their voices heard: lyric poems, plays, letters, vision accounts, romance narratives, allegorical narratives, and autobiography. The authors include ¿saints¿ and ¿heretics,¿ members of royal courts and members of the merchant class, mothers and nuns. We will examine each text from multiple perspectives and consider how it constructs concepts such as gender, nobility, motherhood, and holiness, as well as subversion of such categories. Other issues we will explore are the position of medieval women in relation to literary, civic, and theological authority; medieval definitions of literacy and authorship; the roles of women in manuscript transmission of texts; and the relationship of medieval women¿s texts to modern conceptions of feminist writing.