CMLT 23000 - Comparative Sexual Poetics

Course Credit: 1
(WGSS)
An exploration within the framework of contemporary feminist theory of notions of gender-specific culture, aesthetics, and language. Extensive comparison of similar texts of men and women writers to test the validity of key theoretical assumptions. Readings from multiple genres and national literatures to allow analysis of differences attributable to gender, culture, and textual context. Comparative pairings may include the following: García Márquez and Allende; Sartre and Beauvoir; Whitman and Dickinson; Von Trotta and Schloendorff; Bâ and Laye; Montaigne and Woolf; Miller and Nin; Hellman and Hammett. [AH, W]