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.
Tier 2 Literary Knowledge
Women & Gender Studies
(Dis)Embodied Voices: Women Authors, Aurality, and Audiobooks
With the advent of tools like Libby, Libro F.M., and Audible, we are in the midst of an audiobook revolution. The portability of this mode of textual engagement has enabled people to combine reading with other activities like walking, commuting, and (if you¿re me) the hideous task of laundry. This course will explore women¿s voices in literature and we will pay particular attention to quality of aurality and voice in various texts, supplementing the written word with audiobooks. Over the course of the semester, we will ask: how does our experience of the text change when we experience it in multiple modalities? And how might this multimodal experience be uniquely suited to women¿s literature, especially when we consider the historical exclusion of women from traditional spheres of literary productions?
By the end of this course, you will be able to discuss feminist literary theory, analyze texts from myriad time periods and cultural contexts, and articulate how women have used storytelling¿both on the page and off¿as a mode of expression, archival practice, and social bond. The syllabus will include texts by Charlotte Bronte, Zora Neale Hurston, Madeline Miller, Toni Morrison, and others, and will specifically engage with those texts in audiobook form.
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