Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Course Title:
Gender Perspectives in the Contemporary European and Spanish Literature
Course Number:
781
Course Description:
The course invites the students to think, after Slavoj Zizek, that 'another world is possible', and it is with this
assumption that the course will critically examine the category of gender and its application to literary critique. The
examples of literary production will be drawn from European literature, including authors of British, German, Polish,
Romanian, and Ukrainian descent, with special emphasis placed on a new generation of Spanish artists (playwrights).
Because of the short nature of the course, it is not meant to serve as a panorama of literature in Europe, but rather, as
a representative sample of the literary production that displays an interest and concern with gendered perspective, in
various parts of the continent. In the case of Spanish texts, where a translation into English is not yet available
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Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
FRLN 330, INTS 399, FRLN 330, HNRS 130
