Women in Literature
Requirement: UCLR 100 for students admitted to Loyola University for Fall 2012 or later. No requirement for students admitted to Loyola prior to Fall 2012 or those with a declared major or minor in the Department of English, Department of Classical Studies, or Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
This course focuses on the representation of women in literature, as discussed in a variety of literary works.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the representations of women in various periods of literary history and diverse cultural contexts.
Requirement: UCLR 100 for students admitted to Loyola University for Fall 2012 or later. No requirement for students admitted to Loyola prior to Fall 2012 or those with a declared major or minor in the Department of English, Department of Classical Studies, or Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
This course focuses on the representation of women in literature, as discussed in a variety of literary works.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the representations of women in various periods of literary history and diverse cultural contexts.
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110, C- or higher
Tier 2 Literary Knowledge
Women & Gender Studies
This is a writing intensive class. A grade of C- or better in UCWR 110 is required to enroll.
Women in Literature & The Shell Game
English 283 focuses on the representation of women in literature in diverse cultural contexts. In section 01W, we will focus on the exploration of writers, most of whom identify as women, who use ¿borrowed forms¿ to dialogue powerfully with other texts, forms, discourses, and ideas.
Poets and writers often ¿borrow¿ non-literary forms such as magazine quizzes, recipes, border interrogations, job applications, etc., and transform them into poems, essays, and stories. Like hermit crabs, they steal these homes and re-purpose them for their own needs, desires, questions, and arguments. This literary ¿shell game¿ produces a powerful examination of identity in relation to the body, history, nationality, ethnicity, and constructions of race, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Course texts include work by Layli Long Soldier, Fatimah Asghar, Laura Esquivel, Patricia Lockwood, Gwendolyn Wallace, A.E. Stallings, Nicole Sealey, Kim Adrian, and more. As a writing intensive section, course requirements may include first and final drafts of critical essays, midterm and final exams, asynchronous discussions, and a podcast project.
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