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French Women Writers in Translation                                             Katherine Stephenson

Sex, Identity, and Literature                                                             COED 462, ext. 78751

WMST 4228,001/FREN 4050,001                                                     Office Hours: 1:00-1:50 MW

MW 3:30-4:50, COED 168                                                                      5:00-5:30 MW & by appt

ksstephe@email.uncc.edu

                                                                       Syllabus                                                          

Aug.  22:          Introduction; Ruth Robbins, Introduction (1-17)           

Aug.  24:          Ruth Robbins, Afterword (259-66)

                        Rita Felski, Introduction (1-22); “Plots” (95-133)

                        American Culture Links

Aug.  29:          Diana Holmes, Introduction  (ix-xviii)

Part I: 1848-1914, Ch. 1: “Women in French Society 1849-1914” (3-25)

Part II: 1914-1958, Ch. 6: “Women in French Society 1914-1958” (107-124)

Part III: 1958-1994, Ch. 10: “Women in French Society 1958-1994” (193-215)

Characteristics of French Women's Writing

French Culture Links

Last day to drop a class

Aug.  31:          American Culture Links

Diana Holmes, Ch. 11: “Ecriture féminine: The Theory of a Feminine Writing” (216-30)

Ch. 12: “Defining a Feminine Writing” (231-45)

                        Last day to add a class or change grade type

Sept.   5:          Labor Day

Class, National Identity, and Memory

Sept.   7:          Diana Holmes, Ch. 13: “Feminism and Realism: Christiane Rochefort and Annie Ernaux” (246-65)

                        Ch. 14: “An Open Conclusion: Women’s Writing Now” (266-78)

Sept. 12:          A Frozen Woman (9-113)

Sept. 14:          A Frozen Woman (113-192)

Sept. 19:          A Frozen Woman

Sept. 21:          Heremakhonon: Part One (3-56)

Sept. 26:          Heremakhonon: Parts Two and Three (59--176)

Sept. 28:          Heremakhonon

Language, the Body, Sexuality...

Oct.    3:           The Lover (75, l. 16)

Last day to drop class with a "W"

Oct.    5:           The Lover (75-117)

Oct.   10:          Fall Recess

Oct.   12:          The Lover

Oct.  17:           Midterm exam

Oct.  19:           So Vaste the Prison: “The Silence of Writing,” Parts One and Two (11-167)

Oct.  24:           So Vaste the Prison: Parts Three and Four (169-359)

Oct.  26:           So Vaste the Prison

and Fairy Tale and Myth

Oct.  31:           Rose Mellie Rose (1-79)

Nov.   2:           Class canceled

Nov.   7:           Rose Mellie Rose (79-120)

Nov.   9:           Rose Mellie Rose, Pig Tales (1-24)

Nov.  14:          Pig Tales (24-151)

Nov.  16:          Pig Tales

Nov.  21:          The Book of Nights (Prologue, Books I & II, 3-86)

Nov. 23-25:     Thanksgiving

Nov.  28:          The Book of Nights (Books III & IV, 87-201)

Nov.  30:          The Book of Nights (Book V, Epilogue, 203-263)

Dec.    5:          The Book of Nights

Dec.    7:          Review

Dec.  14:           Final Exam (Wednesday, 3:30-6:30)