ENH3175

Reading Otherwise: Literature, Gender, Psychoanalysis (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Dr Rose Lucas

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2004 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: Students completing this unit have gained: 1. Knowledge and a working understanding of selected psychoanalytic texts. 2. Knowledge of a broad range of cross-genre literary texts. 3. Further skills of literary analysis, enriched by the application of certain psychoanalytic concepts. 4. Insight into the critical and theoretical debates concerning the production of a gendered subjectivity within literary texts. 5. The necessary skills for contributing to critical discussion and producing scholarly written argument.

Assessment: Seminar participation: 10% + Class paper (to be subsequently handed in as a 2500 word essay): 50% + In-class Test (1.5 hours): 40%

Contact Hours: 2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week and occasional 2 hour screenings

Prerequisites: A first-year sequence in literary studies or equivalent.