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Module Specifications
Archived Version 2007 - 2008
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This module aims to: 1) …discover how sexuality and gendered subjectivity is constructed in fiction, film and theatre. We will explore how these narrative forms serve as technologies of gender, and how they work to establish and to subvert stereotypes of masculinity and femininity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At the end of the module, you will:
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Assume that a 10 credit module load represents approximately 150 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This course will interrogate the social construction of masculine and feminine identities. Among other themes, readings will problematise historical and cultural configurations of gender, mythologies of heroism and male self-fulfilment, male and female initiations, the social and physical praxis of masculinity and femininity. · Tahar Ben Jelloun, The Sand Child, Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Carmen Martin Gaite, Behind Curtains, Rosa Montero, I will treat you like a Queen., James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Hervé Guibert, To the man who did not save my life, Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, Tanizaki, Makioka Sisters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| GDALIS | GDip in Applied Lang & Intercul Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GDCL | GDip in Comparative Literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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