Leader: Ms Sofia Kostelac

Offered

South Africa Second semester 2008 (Day)

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should:

1. demonstrate a critical awareness of the ways in which certain literary texts encourage us to re-evaluate standardised constructions of gendered and sexual identity
2. appreciate the significance of the texts' constructions of male and female identity within their socio-historical contexts.
3. be able to perform a close reading of a literary text, demonstrating a sensitivity to the particular devices, language and strategies employed;
4. demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the major theoretical approaches which may be brought to bear on literary texts;
5. be able to employ and evaluate such theoretical approaches in an interpretation of a text;
6. handle the critical concepts and language appropriate to discussion of Victorian, modernist and contemporary texts;
7. demonstrate a development of the skills of analytic and critical discussion introduced at first year level. Students taking the course at third year level will be expected to demonstrate a more sophisticated grasp of the theoretical material introduced.

Assessment

Tutorial attendance and portfolio - 10%; Short essay (1250 words) - 20%; Long essay (2000 words) - 30%; Examination - 40%

Contact hours

Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week

Prerequisites

ENH1200 & ENH1220

Prohibitions

ENH2585