ENGL 525:

Women in Literature

Spring 2010; TU 1:05 - 2:20 p.m.

Schedule of Classes | 1xbet online s | Message Board

Professor Westman

English/CS 108B; 532-2171

Office Hours: T, U 9-10 a.m. & by app't.

westmank@ksu.edu

Required Texts

Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) (Penguin)

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1907) (Penguin Puffin Classics)

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) (Norton Critical Edition)

JeanetteWinterson, The Passion (1987)

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996, 1998)

Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) (Anchor Books)

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2002) (Pantheon)

Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1987)

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)

1xbet best casino website Pack (selected poetry, non-fiction prose, and critical essays; available on 1/13/10 at A&S Copy Center in Eisenhower Hall)

Note: Prerequisites for taking ENGL 525 include at least 1xbet best casino website of the following: English 125 (Honors English 2) or English 200 (Expository Writing 2).

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In this course we 1xbet best casino website study how a variety of women authors both respond to and reshape a tradition of literature that has typically been sexed as male and gendered as masculine. Issues we 1xbet best casino website explore include:

• their choice of themes and genres
• the relationship between expectations for women writers and readers and what women wrote and read
• the changing social role of the woman author writing for herself and for others across several centuries of cultural change
• the ways that racial, 1xbet best casino website , and national affiliations affect the production and reception of women writers' works

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• To become familiar with and to appreciate women's literature and its historical and formal conventions
• To develop and apply critical skills for reading, thinking, and writing 1xbet best casino website literature
  • what a literary text conveys (its themes, its view of the world)
  • how a literary text conveys that knowledge (its aesthetic form, its selection/omission of detail)
• To use relevant cultural and historical information when interpreting literature
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Reading and 1xbet best casino website Participation: Any literature course is a reading-intensive experience, so plan accordingly! Our class will be based on discussion, so class participation is expected and will count for 20% of your final grade. &1xbet best casino website ;Class participation&1xbet best casino website ; is not the same as just showing up and taking notes: you must be an active presence in the class. To participate, you must complete the reading assigned for each class session, think carefully about what you have read, and come to class ready to share your ideas. For each class, bring the appropriate book or course pack, so you can not only contribute to discussion but also mark passages that we discuss; this process will help you understand, remember, and review.

1xbet best casino website participation grade includes 1xbet best casino website contributions to our discussions in class (in large and small groups) and to our discussions on Message Board in K-State Online. I will expect at least one posting a week from each student to the Message Board; the guidelines and instructions for using the Message Board appear below.

Attendance: Obviously, you can't participate effectively if you aren't in class. Since the University requires that students attend all classes in which they are enrolled, there are no excused absences. You will not be penalized for 1xbet best casino website first two absences; thereafter, further absences will jeopardize 1xbet best casino website final course grade. Excessive or repeated lateness will also jeopardize 1xbet best casino website final grade. Excessive absences (six or more) may result in failure of the course. If you wish to receive a passing grade in this class, then, attendance is important.

While I appreciate 1xbet best casino website offering explanations for absences other than illness, the only way to excuse an absence is to provide me with an official letter from 1xbet best casino website dean or advisor. Classroom work or homework assignments missed due to absence cannot be made up. If you are absent, it is 1xbet best casino website responsibility to find out from another 1xbet best casino website member any announcements or assignments.

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Quizzes: Expect 8-10 quizzes during the semester at the start of the class session. Quizzes are designed to test 1xbet best casino website knowledge of the reading assigned for that class session and the critical skills we develop and practice during our discussions. The quizzes will consist of identifications and interpretive questions which will help you improve 1xbet best casino website critical skills and will allow me to evaluate those skills and 1xbet best casino website comprehension of the material.

I reserve the option to replace a quiz with a two-page, typed response paper, due at the start of 1xbet best casino website ; if assigned, response papers would be in response to a particular interpretative question distributed at the previous 1xbet best casino website session. Quizzes (and response papers) will be graded on a scale of 1 to 5 points: 5=A, 4=B, 3=C, 2=D, 1=F. I will average the points at the end of the course after dropping the lowest grade.

Paper: You will write only one formal paper (6-7 pages) in this class: a persuasive argument in essay form, which will use one or two of our assigned texts to argue for 1xbet best casino website interpretation of the theme(s). If 1xbet best casino website paper is late, it will be penalized a full letter grade (i.e.: A to B) for each day it is late. Papers must be typed, double-spaced, with one inch margins and with a 11- or 12-point standard font; the pages should be spell-checked, proof-read, numbered, and stapled or paper-clipped together. 1xbet best casino website name, my name, the date, and the type of assignment should appear in the upper-left hand corner of the first page.

A note on sources: a &1xbet best casino website ;Works Cited&1xbet best casino website ; page should accompany any assignment that cites books and other outside sources, and you should use the MLA method for documenting sources. When you turn in a paper, you pledge that the work is your own and that you have faithfully abided by the guidelines for documenting sources. The University's Honor Code obliges you to cite the source of any idea that is not your own. If you quote, paraphrase, or use another’s ideas, you must give credit to the person whose ideas you are using. Otherwise, you have plagiarized. If you have any questions, please ask. If you do plagiarize, you will fail this course.

Multi-Media Project: You will choose one of four possible multi-media projects to complete during the semester. 1xbet best casino website multi-media project can be submitted on any class day but must be turned in no later than April 29. Each project should demonstrate insight and understanding of the text with which it connects, should be thoughtfully constructed, and should be presented professionally with attention to detail. Refer to the grading rubrics (posted in K-State Online) for detailed grading criteria. The assignment will be distributed next week, but here are brief descriptions:

• Option 1: Create a soundtrack cd to accompany 1xbet best casino website of the texts we’re studying. It must have 5-6 tracks and be accompanied by a written explanation (2 pages in length) of how each selected song relates to the text.
• Option 2: Using events, situations, or characters from a text we’re studying, create a fictional front page of a newspaper about that text. Format appropriately (single spaced, columns, headings/headlines), and include a written explanation (2 pages in length) about 1xbet best casino website process of selection, research, or design.
• Option 3: Film a one-minute commercial or create a visual advertisement designed to encourage a specific target audience to read one of the texts we’re studying. With the dvd containing the commercial or with the finished visual ad, include a written explanation (2 pages in length) identifying the audience of the commercial/ad and explaining why 1xbet best casino website commercial/ad will persuade that audience to read the text. Also, if you faced any significant difficulties creating this project, explain those challenges.
• Option 4: Create a collage of pictures and words (cut from magazines or assembled from digital images/print) that connects with a text we’re studying. Include a written explanation (2 pages in length) explaining why 1xbet best casino website chose those particular images and/or words for that text and why 1xbet best casino website arranged them as 1xbet best casino website did.

Examinations: You will have a take-home midterm exam and a cumulative final exam. A missed exam counts as a zero; no make-up exams will be offered without an excuse from 1xbet best casino website dean or doctor.

Computing: Technology increasingly plays an important role in our academic and professional careers. Consequently, you will be asked to use some different kinds of technology, including a Message Board discussion and electronic resources. Our work online is designed not only as another forum for exploring our reading, but as a way for you to sharpen 1xbet best casino website communication skills and media skills.

Online Message Board: To offer another venue for discussion, I'll establish during the first week an electronic bulletin board for our class. Each student is required to post once a week about the materials we're studying in class. I will monitor these discussions and assess a grade (at the end of the semester) based on the thoughtfulness of 1xbet best casino website comments, their ability to foster discussion among 1xbet best casino website classmates, and their responsiveness both to our readings and to 1xbet best casino website classmates' comments in class and on the list.

An average posting should run about one or two paragraphs in length. In other words, 1xbet best casino website postings do not need to be long; however, they need to be substantive: they must be long enough to convey clearly the problem you are taking up and 1xbet best casino website point of view, connecting 1xbet best casino website comment to others’ comments whenever possible. I will offer models of successful comments early in the semester. 1xbet best casino website grade for these postings will become part of 1xbet best casino website class participation grade.

To post to the bulletin board, follow these directions:

1. Go to my homepage at http://www.ksu.edu/english/westmank/ and click on our course (ENGL 525), and then &1xbet best casino website ;Bulletin Board&1xbet best casino website ; to login to K-StateOnline and go directly to the &1xbet best casino website ;Message Board.&1xbet best casino website ; (You may also login to the K-State Online course page for ENGL 525, click on &1xbet best casino website ;Collaboration&1xbet best casino website ; and then select &1xbet best casino website ;Message Board.&1xbet best casino website ;)
2. 1xbet best casino website should see all the messages posted to date and the newest threads ones first.
3. To post, choose to &1xbet best casino website ;reply,&1xbet best casino website ; so you can engage directly in the conversation and your message can &1xbet best casino website ;thread&1xbet best casino website ; beneath the one you're responding to. I also encourage you to change the subject line so it reflects the content of your message.

Email: I highly recommend email as a way of touching base with me about 1xbet best casino website work for the class -- a kind of virtual office hours. You can send me queries about reading or writing assignments, 1xbet best casino website thesis statement for an essay, or anything else that could be handled with a quick exchange of messages. I check my email throughout the day, but please remember that I am not perpetually online.

Conferences: I want you to succeed in this course, and I am happy to meet with you about 1xbet best casino website work and 1xbet best casino website progress. I encourage you to see me before exams or papers are due, or if you have questions about material we discuss in class. Please feel free to stop by during office hours (T, U 9:00-10:00 a.m.), or contact me by phone or email to arrange a more convenient time to meet.

Note: If 1xbet best casino website have any condition such as a physical or learning disability that will make it difficult for 1xbet best casino website to carry out the work as I have outlined it or which will require academic accommodations, please notify me in the first two days of the course.

Grading:

Quizzes 25%

1xbet best casino website Participation 20%

In-1xbet best casino website 10%

Postings 10%

Paper 15%
Multi-Media Project 10%
Take-Home Midterm 10%
Final Exam 20%

Schedule of Classes

Tradition and the Gendered Talent

January	U 14		Introduction: &1xbet best casino website ;Tradition and the Gendered Talent&1xbet best casino website ; (with apologies to T.S. Eliot): Sidney, Sonnet #1 (&1xbet best casino website ;Loving in Truth,...&1xbet best casino website ;); Shakespeare, Sonnet #18 (&1xbet best casino website ;Shall I compare thee...&1xbet best casino website ;); Marvell, &1xbet best casino website ;To His Coy Mistress&1xbet best casino website ;; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, &1xbet best casino website ;The Lover: A Ballad&1xbet best casino website ;
	T 19		Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman [CP]; selected poems: Anne Bradstreet and Anne Finch [CP]
	U 21		Gilbert and Gubar, from The Madwoman in the Attic [CP]
	T 26		&1xbet best casino website ;Debating Women: Arguments in Verse&1xbet best casino website ;; Jonathan Swift, &1xbet best casino website ;The Lady's Dressing Room&1xbet best casino website ;; Montagu, &1xbet best casino website ;The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room&1xbet best casino website ;; Aphra Behn, &1xbet best casino website ;The Disappointment&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]

Novels and Romances: The &1xbet best casino website ;Dangers&1xbet best casino website ; of the (Female) Imagination

	U 28		Spectator #365; Samuel Johnson, Rambler #4; Jane Austen, from Northanger Abbey; Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1721-3); Harriet Martineau, from Autobiography (1725-28); Janice Radway, from 1xbet best casino website the Romance (60-61); selections from Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women (1-2, 4-6; 56-9; 133-9) [CP]
February	T 2		Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (3-185)
	U 4		Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (186-335)
	T 9		Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (339-489) Critical readings on Bronte: Langland, from Anne Bronte: The Other 1xbet best casino website Optional reading: Frawley, &1xbet best casino website ;'The Fair Unknown': Privacy and Personhood in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall&1xbet best casino website ; [CP] 1xbet best casino website #1
	U 11		Rossetti, &1xbet best casino website ;In an Artist's Studio&1xbet best casino website ; and &1xbet best casino website ;Goblin Market&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
	T 16		L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1-192/through Chp 19)
	U 18		Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (193-369) Selection of critical readings on Montgomery (select two): Epperly, Nodelman, Rubio, MacLulich, and Berg [CP] 1xbet best casino website #2

Taking the Pen in Hand...

	T 23		Woolf, from A Room of 1xbet best casino website 's Own; Adrienne Rich, &1xbet best casino website ;When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Revision&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
	U 25		Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) (9-64)
March	T 2		Wide Sargasso Sea (64-112); critical essays by Rhys (in Norton Critical edition): Rhys, &1xbet best casino website ;The Bible Is Modern&1xbet best casino website ; (148-149); Rhys, from &1xbet best casino website ;Black ExerciseBook&1xbet best casino website ; (155-156)
	U 4		Wide Sargasso Sea; excerpts from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (119-132 ); excerpts from Rhys' letters & facsimile of mss. (135-147); and Rody, &1xbet best casino website ;Burning Down the House...&1xbet best casino website ; (217-225) (All readings in Norton Critical edition.) 1xbet best casino website #3
	F 5		Take-Home Midterm Exam Due to my mailbox in ECS 119 by 5 p.m
	T 9		Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (3-76)
	U 11		Winterson, The Passion (79-160) Critical essays on and by Winterson: from Palmer, &1xbet best casino website ;The Passion: Storytelling, Fantasy, Desire&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]; Winterson, &1xbet best casino website ;A Work of My Own&1xbet best casino website ; [CP] Optional critical 1xbet best casino website : Westman, With &1xbet best casino website ;money and a room of her own&1xbet best casino website ;:The Legacy of Woolf's Advice for the Woman Artist at Century's End&1xbet best casino website ;
			Spring Break - March 16th - 18th
	T 23		Pat Barker, Regeneration (3-145)
	U 25		Barker, Regeneration (149-252); reviews of Regeneration [CP] 1xbet best casino website #4
	T 30		Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1-106)
April	U 1		Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (109-197)
	T 6		Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (199-311); from &1xbet best casino website ;A Reader's Companion to The Handmaid's Tale&1xbet best casino website ; (316-321); reviews/critical readings of Atwood [CP] 1xbet best casino website #5
	U 8		Satrapi, Persepolis 1xbet best casino website
	M 12		Prospectus for Paper Due (1 page) to my mailbox in ECS 119 by 5 p.m.
	T 13		Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1-165)
	U 15		Naylor, Mama Day (166-312) 1xbet best casino website #6
	T 20		Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1-268)
	U 22		Rowling, Azkaban (269-435)
	T 27		Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1-153)
	U 29		Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (157-271); film of Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) on 1xbet best casino website own; reader comments/reviews [forthcoming] 1xbet best casino website #7
	F 30		Paper #2 Due (6-7 pp.) to my mailbox in ECS 119 by 5 p.m.; information 1xbet best casino website MLA citiation format
May	T 4		Selected Poems: Fleur Adcock, Wendy Cope, Margaret Atwood, Carol Ann Duffy, and Erica Jong [CP]
	U 6		Review
	W 12		Final Exam (IDs & Essay), 2:00 - 3:50 p.m.