Syllabus/achievement requirements

These are the primary texts we’ll be studying this term. A list of books to buy for this course can be found at the bottom of the document.

Primary texts

Novels and graphic novels

  • Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own (1929)
  • Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
  • Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)
  • Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006)
  • Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox (2011)

Short stories

  • Edith Wharton, ‘Autres Temps…’ (1911) (available as PDF)
  • Joyce Carol Oates, ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ (1966) (available as PDF)
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’ (2009) (available as PDF)

Secondary texts

  • Mary Eagleton (ed.), A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (2003)
  • Other secondary reading will be made available as PDFs on Fronter.

What to buy:

  • Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own (1929)
  • Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
  • Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)
  • Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006)
  • Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox (2011)
  • Mary Eagleton (ed.), A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (2003)

 

Published May 22, 2015 11:21 AM