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Gender and Genre - Novels by Women Writers of Short Stories: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Andrew Gross
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
LAFV, Magister, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 10:15 - 11:45, A 401
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS Literature "Gender and Genre" kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature" (71501): Hausarbeit (7 ECTS) BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Idependent Study Group (69401): Hausarbeit (10 ECTS) (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
Das HS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (69201): Hausarbeit (10 ECTS) (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: "Aufbaumodul 4" mit begleitendem Kurs (3830): Hausarbeit & Thesenpapier (10 ECTS) MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: "Vertiefungsmodul 7" mit begleitender Independent Study (3860): Hausarbeit & wissenschaftlicher Vortrag (10 ECTS)
- Contents
- These three women are generally considered authors of short fiction, although they all wrote novels or, in the case of Paley, books that might be considered near-novels. This course will focus onthe work they produced around mid-century to consider the relation of gender to genre. We will read Porter’s “The Leaning Tower,” “The Old Order,” and “The Downward Path to Wisdom,” and discuss her late novel “The Ship of Fools”(it is optional to purchase this text); O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “Good Country People,” “The Artificial Nigger,” “The Lame Shall Enter First,” “Revelation,” “Greenleaf,” “The Displaced Person,” and “The Violent Bear It Away”; and Paley’s “The Little Disturbances of Man”.
These stories deal with different themes from very different political, regional, and generational perspectives. Critics have rightly characterized the authors with divergent monikers ranging from Southern grotesque, Catholic, anagogical, and allegorical to feminist, activist, Jewish,and urban. For all the significant differences, however, the authors share a common concern with what it means for women to write fiction in the twentieth century. This concern impacts the way they represent pressing social and political problems including racism, genocide, and war; and it shapes their understanding of individualism, identity, and literary style.
The course will link these issues and concerns to what was, at the time, an emergent feminist criticism, and it will consider the politics of classifying fiction in terms of genre, and how genre impacts critical reputation and cultural status.
- Recommended literature
- Students are required to purchase copies of the texts listed above.
Recommended editions:
O'Connor: "Collected Works" ((Library of America) Katherine Anne Porter: "Collected Stories" (Mariner) Grace Paley: "Little Disturbances of Man" (Penguin)
- Additional information
- Expected participants: 30
Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2014:
- Amerikanistik, Modul B
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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