GWS 280

Spring 2018

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Women Writers
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 280. See ENGL 280.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
49540
Lecture-Discussion
M
9:30AM -10:45AM
TR
English Building
Bauer, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/16/18-05/02/18
Section Title:
U.S. Women Writers, 1919-2018
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Topic: U.S. Women Writers, 1919-2018 This course examines 20th- and 21st-century US women’s writing in a variety of forms and styles. We will focus on how literary works are simultaneously products of one author’s imagination and participate in a set of historical norms, shaped by the cultural anxieties to which the author, in turn, responds. This survey of American women’s writing will start with women’s writing in the 1910s and move, decade by decade, into the present. This class will take a historical and cultural approach to US women’s writing, as well as illuminating various literary methodologies. The reading list will include canonical and noncanonical readings from various genres—poetry, memoir, radical and conservative novels, drama—in order to demonstrate both formal and thematic concerns in representative women’s texts. Our readings include: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Turned” (1911) and THE CRUX (1911); Rachel Grimke's RACHEL (1918), stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Fannie Hurst, Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker; Meridel Le Sueur’s THE GIRL (1939); Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948) and LIFE AMONg THE SAVAGES (1953); confessional and modern poetry by Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Adrienne Rich (1960s to 1980s); selections from Marya Hornbacher's memoirs, and essays by Roxane Gay. Requirements are two exams and a final, along with response papers throughout the semester.
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