Strong Members of the "Weaker Sex": Women in English Fiction Through the Ages.

DozentIn: Prof. Dr. Harald Husemann , Erika Grosse Beilage

Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar

Ort: 41/E07

Zeiten: Mi. 08:00 - 10:00 (wöchentlich)

Beschreibung: Where would MAN-kind be, if we did not have women (members of the sisterhood and of the "weaker sex") to keep us fed, watered, pampered, on the path of virtue and in love with our own ego???
We will study a selection of fictional texts, which portray some outstanding female characters. Factual texts and pictorial representations will supplement our discussions.
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1. Key texts to be bought and read

G. Chaucer. Wife of Bath´s Tale (in Canterbury Tales) (1387) (Excerpt supplied).
D. Defoe. Moll Flanders (1722).
C. Bronte. Jane Eyre (1847) (From Chapter 11 to the end).
G.B. Shaw. Mrs. Warren´s Profession. (1898).
V. Woolf. A Room of One´s Own (1929).
M. Spark. Miss Jean Brodie (1961).
W. Russell. Educating Rita (1979).
S. Townsend. The Queen and I (1992).
R. Dahl. “The Way Up to Heaven”(1959) (Excerpt supplied).


2. Supplementary texts (not to be read in the seminar)

W. Shakespeare. Macbeth (1606/1623).
W. Thackeray. Vanity Fair .(1847/48).
F. McCourt. Angela´s Ashes (1997).
M. Drabble. The Millstone (1966).
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