AS 060.407 - Dramatic and Fictional Narratives by Women

Institution:

Johns Hopkins University

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Description:

In this course, we will read a wide range of plays and novels written by women from as far back as Aphra Behn at the end of the seventeenth century to living writers. Works and writers likely to be featured in discussions and in suggested paper topics include: Behn’s Oroonoko, Jane Austen’s "Persuasion" (very different angle from Pride and Prejudice), Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s "Wide Sargasso Sea" (a “prequel” to Brontë’s masterpiece), Gertrude Stein’s "Three Lives", Virginia Woolf’s "Orlando", Arundhati Roy’s "The God of Small Things", Timberlake Wertenbaker’s "Our Country’s Good" (on early Australian convicts), Patricia Duncker’s "The Doctor", and Jane Smiley’s "A Thousand Acres" (King Lear in Iowa). Women have produced a lot of wonderful and drastically different kinds of narrative work; there is no single ideological agenda in this course. Readings will be all over the map—some are ideologically and technically conservative, some radical; some are angry and strident, some funny and light; some are sober, some wild. Students should emerge from the course with a far richer sense of the issues and questions and crises with which women have concerned themselves over the last two centuries.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.jhu.edu

Phone Number:

(410) 516-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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