FRN4801 - The Female Body

Leader: Brian Nelson

Offered

Not offered in 2007

Synopsis

As for FRN3801

Objectives

On completion of this subject students will have acquired a critical understanding of representations of women and the female body in the context of social history, and with particular reference to 19th-century France. They will engage with questions of narrative strategy, pictorial representation, and psychoanalytic theory.

Assessment

Class presentation (1500 words): 25%
Essay (2000 words): 45%
Explication de texte: 30%
Fourth-year students will be expected to read more extensively in primary and/or secondary literature and will write an essay requiring more analytical/theoretical discussion.

Contact hours

3 tutorial hours per week