{"id":26220,"date":"2016-09-19T18:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=26220&lang=en"},"modified":"2018-03-03T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T07:56:29","slug":"womens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=26220&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Anglophone Modernist Women’s Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:<\/strong> Anglophone Modernist Women’s Writing<\/strong><\/em>
\n Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr.Tihana Klepa\u010d
\n ECTS credits:<\/strong> 6
\n Language:<\/strong> English
\n Status:<\/strong> elective
\n Enrolment requirements:<\/strong> enrolment in 2nd or 4th semester
\n Course requirements:<\/strong> continuous assessment; regular attendance, work in class, 1 written assignment, mid-term and end-term exam.
\n Course description:<\/strong> Selected texts exemplify Anglophone literary modernism with stress on its colonial, national and the context of gender. In line with the new modernist studies we shall view modernisms as multiple, and occurring across various temporalities and geographies, whilst responding to the drive in postcolonial studies to reshape modernism with an awareness of the British Empire.
\n Objectives:<\/strong> The objective of the course is to awaken the students\u2019 awareness to the mechanism which led to the formulation of modernism in different countries of the Anglophone world, and to raise their awareness of the necessity to discuss modernism in colonial, national and the context of gender.
\n Course requirements:<\/strong> The final grade is based on continuous assessment which includes regular attendance, preparation for and participation in class, writing small assignments, timely submission of the final paper, and obligatory sitting for mid-term and end-term exam. Students must meet all requirements of continuous assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule:<\/strong>
\n Week 1
\n Space and topics of modernism \u2013 new approach
\n Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz: \u201cThe New Modernist Studies\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2
\n Social context and development of literary forms in modernism in colonial, national and the context of gender.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3
\n Modern Indian women’s writing: questioning of formal innovations of modernism and resistance toward Eurocentric modernity
\n Sarojini Naidu: The Golden Threshold, collection of poetry
\n Sarojini Naidu: \u201cNilambuya: The Fantasy of a Poet\u2019s Mood,\u201d \u201cEducation of Indian Women,\u201d \u201cWomen in National Life,\u201d essays<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4 and 5
\n Modern Canadian women’s writing: awareness of internationalism as a contrast to nationalist and regional characteristics of Canadian art as a main characteristic of Canadian modernism
\n Sara Jeanette Duncan: Cousin Cinderella<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 6 and 7
\n Modern Caribbean women’s writing: writing at the crossroads of different literary forces \u2013 those of Caribbean literature, modernism, women’s writing, and postcolonialism
\n Jean Rhys: Woman in the Dark<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 8
\n Mid-term exam + academic writing<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 9 and 10
\n Modern South-African women’s writing: politicised modernism aesthetics
\n Olive Schreiner: From Man to Man<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 11 and 12
\n Modern Australian women’s writing: representing colonial national through the criticism of colonial-provincial structures and a detailed recreation of national space
\n Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 12 and 13
\n Modern New Zealand women’s writing: questioning the representation of narration through a male viewpoint and in line with patriarchal values
\n Katherine Mansfield: Urewera Notebook, \u201cHow Pearl Button Was Kidnapped,\u201d \u201cThe Woman at the Store,\u201d \u201cJe ne parle pas francois\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 14
\n End-term exam<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Course title: Anglophone Modernist Women’s Writing Instructor:\u00a0 Dr.Tihana Klepa\u010d ECTS credits: 6 Language: English Status: elective Enrolment requirements: enrolment in 2nd or 4th semester Course requirements: continuous assessment; regular attendance, work in class, 1 written assignment, mid-term and end-term exam. Course description: Selected texts exemplify Anglophone literary modernism with stress on its colonial, national and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-i-10-semestar-knjizevni-kolegiji-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26220"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32061,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions\/32061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}