Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Description This course considers Irish, British, and American textual and visual works from the eighteenth century up until the present that explore cultural constructs of gender and sexuality. It includes work in different genres by both prominent and lesser known writers/ artists who show that gender and sexuality might be more complex than we initially assume. In so doing, it examines a range of topics including the relationship of power and gender, the significance of body image, concepts of feminine and masculine in relation to nature, theories of the gaze. To assist in the examination of works that introduce such central human questions related to gender and sexuality, students will also read supplementary theoretical texts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Engage with central arguments related to the constructed nature of gender and sexuality as treated in literature, visual material, and theory. 2. Appreciate the different generic approaches to central questions in relation to gender and sexuality 3. Understand the historical development of changing approaches to gender and sexuality 4. Analyze a range of the political and cultural issues in relation to literature’s treatment of gender and sexuality. 5. Understand how literature engages with the relationship of identity to issues of gender and sexuality. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Gender Politics: (3)Richardson; M. Wollstonecraft; M. Edgeworth (essay; novels)Bodies of Poetry: (2-3)Keats and Tennyson (poetry)Sisterhood: (1)Christina Rossetti (poetry)Gender performance: Fin de siècle aesthetics (2)Somerville and Ross; George du Maurier (illustrated novels)Gender transformation: (1)Virginia Woolf (novel)Gender and Nature: The Frontiersman (1)Jack London (children’s book)Gender and Race (1)Richard Wright (short fiction)Image and identity: The Silver Screen goddess (2)Angela Carter; Mankiewicz, All About Eve (novel and film)Body and self: sexuality and animalism (2)Angela Carter (fairy tales)Sex and censorship in Ireland (1)Kate O’Brien (novel)Gendering the Nation (2)Lady Gregory and E. Boland (play and poetry) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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