2017-2018-1

YSE_BTK011-24

_Előadás, _Kollokvium

YSE_BTK01, Erasmus kurzusok (BTK)

YSE_BTK01, Erasmus kurzusok (BTK)

BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

heti 2.00

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During the last thirty years feminist literary theory and criticism has not only made an impact on literary theory and criticism but has also changed overall cultural attitudes by challenging the modern (white, Euro-American, male-centred, elitist) conception of culture. The feminist explorations have focused on the issue of how social assumptions about, and attitudes toward, gender, sex and sexuality structure the general notions of aesthetics and epistemology as well as social and institutional relations. The goal has been to revise those naturalised, apparently ungendered concepts and categories of thought which have tacitly drawn on hierarchical, exclusionary models of subjectivity, literature, culture, etc.. Today, neither a history of modern literary theory nor a study of contemporary culture can ignore the feminist contributions. This course gives an overview of the history of feminist literary theory. The overall aim is to map the complexity and diversity of feminist approaches (psychoanalytical, Marxist, postmodernist, deconstructionist, postcolonial, social materialist, etc.) and the differences within feminist projects. It covers the history of feminist theory by identifying four stages, or trends (which are usually interconnected and overlapping): 1, an analysis of representations of women in male-authored texts; 2, gynocriticism (uniquely female aesthetic, an alternative, women’s literary tradition); 3, gender studies (all texts are marked by gender); 4, how racial, sexual and class differences among women matter. It will also look at feminist literary theories’ interrelationships to queer theory, lesbian and gay studies. Grading policy: exam which has two elements: two take-home, written assignments/papers 40 % and an oral examination 60%.