Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2019 - WL 320 D100

Interdisciplinary Approaches to World Literature (3)

Class Number: 9372

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 3 – Dec 2, 2019: Wed, 9:30 a.m.–1:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Intermediate seminar on the intersections between World Literature and other modes of cultural expression, or other academic disciplines. May focus on different methodological approaches to World Literature, for instance gender, cultural, or performance studies. Alternatively, may explore literature in relation to music, theatre, film, the visual arts, or digital humanities. This course may be repeated for credit when different topics are offered. Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:


Heroines in Greece and beyond; political representations of women in film and literature

Examine the impact of national and political contexts upon individual women, their personal histories, political engagement, memories and identities. Traces archetypes of women from the ancient Greek world into different contexts. Specifically, this course reflects on past and present representations of women in a wide range of writings and films produced in N. America, Europe, the Balkans and Latin America. The objective of the course is to analyze the selected visual and textual narratives so as to reflect on the specific social contexts and the prevailing cultural and gender norms. It will offer a critical analysis on the continuities and discontinuities of women’s representations while reflecting on post/modernity, gender, politics, philosophy, theory and broader contemporary debates.


Grading

  • Participation 10%
  • Presentation 10%
  • Midterm 35%
  • Portfolio 40%
  • Attendance 5%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Whitehead, Stephen. Talahite, Anissa. Moodley, Roy. Gender and identity; key themes and new directions. Oxford University Press, 2013.

*Additional readings available online, through the SFU Library.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Archer Mann, Susan. Doing feminist theory; from modernity to postmodernity. Oxford University Press, 2012.
ISBN: 978-0199858101

Campbell, Lara. Myers, Tamara. Perry, Adele. eds. Rethinking Canada: the promise of women’s history. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad; The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. Toronto: Knopf, 2010.

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