Feminist poetics
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
R Lucas
12 points * 2 hours per week * Second semester * Caulfield (available to students from all campuses)
This subject will offer close study of a number of key women poets of the twentieth century who have contributed to a general feminist challenge to, and rewriting of, the stereotypes of gender. Substantial reading of the oeuvres of these poets will be contextualised within an examination of a range of theoretical praxes - in particular, discourses of social feminism, literary theory and psychoanalysis.
Assessment
Two exercises (2500 words each): 25% each * Major essay based on class presentation (3000 words): 50%
Prescribed texts
Atwood M You are happy Harper and Row, 1974
H D H D The collected poems ed. L Martz, New Directions, 1983
Plath S The collected poems ed. T Hughes, Harper and Row, 1981
Porter D Akhenaten UQP, 1991
Rich A The fact of a doorframe Norton, 1981
Sexton A The complete poems Houghton Miffin, 1981
Recommended texts
Toril Moi The Kristeva reader Blackwell, 1986