The course focuses on the relationship between feminism and postmodernism, with particular emphasis on short stories and novels written by British and Anglophone women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, and Jeanette Winterson. It explores how these writers draw upon key philosophical assumptions and narrative experiments associated with postmodernism to produce contemporary narratives, myths, and theories concerning female subjectivity, sexuality, gender identity, and social status. The course adopts a comparative and intertextual approach, examining, for example, the rewriting of myths and fairy tales. More specifically, the course examines postmodern literary and theoretical approaches to the concept of identity. Drawing on these approaches, it analyzes femininity and its ideological, psychological, and social construction. It also considers postmodernism as an aesthetic and cultural phenomenon that has generated new perspectives on writing, reading, and textuality, as well as on their relationship to the concepts of reality, truth, and the world. The course further explores how these ideas have been adopted and developed by feminist writers and theorists and how they continue to function as strategies of resistance against dominant representations of women’s identities. Particular attention is given to issues such as the organization and structure of the text, language, imagery, references, intertextuality, and a range of other narrative and stylistic techniques.
Expected learning outcomes
Assessment
Final exam (100%)
or
Final exam (60%) and optional oral presentation / project (e.g. creative writing) with in-class presentation and written reflection (40%)
| Semester | Group | Day | From | To | Room | Instructor |
| Winter | Monday | 18:30 | 21:00 | 01 í.ð. | Ntola Georgia |
