MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ENM4270/5270

Feminist poetics

Rose Lucas

Synopsis 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 stereootypes 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 (8 points) Two exercises (1500 words each): 25% each + Major essay based on class presentation (3000 words): 50%

Assessment (12 points) Two exercises (2500 words each): 25% each + Major essay based on class presentation (4000 words): 50%

Prescribed texts

• Atwood M Poems 1976-1986Virago, 1987
• 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 The monkey's mask, Hyland House, 1994
• Rich A The fact of a doorframe Norton, 1981
• Sexton A The complete poems Houghton Mifflin, 1981
• Lorde I A Chosen poems, old and new Norton, 1982

Recommended texts

• Toril Moi The Kristeva reader Blackwell, 1986