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Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: ENGL 211 and ENGL 212 or equivalent first year English course(s).
Centre: Centre for Language and Literature
ENGL 307 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Course website
English 307 critically examines the tradition in women's writing, deconstructs the pervasive images of women in literature, and analyses the way in which women use language to define their experiences. A variety of works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Canadian, British, and American women will be studied, including three novels—Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Raven—a play by Caryl Churchill; poetry by Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Bronwen Wallace; and essays by Adrienne Rich and Virginia Woolf.
Unit 1: Reviewing Tradition
Unit 2: Re-imaging Women
Unit 3: Re-casting Roles
Unit 4: Rewriting Language
Unit 5: Reliving Experience
Unit 6: Redefining the Margins
To receive credit for ENGL 307, you must achieve a composite course grade of at least “D” (50 percent). The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:
| Personal Essay | Critical Essay 1 | Critical Essay 2 | Final Exam | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10% | 25% | 25% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar, eds. 1996. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, 2nd ed. New York: Norton.
Maracle, Lee. 1993. Ravensong. Vancouver: Press Gang.
Rhys, Jean. 2000. Wide Sargasso Sea. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.
Rich, Adrienne. 1980. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. New York: Norton.
Woolf, Virginia. 1993. A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas. Harmondsworth, ENG: Penguin.
The course materials also include a study guide and a student manual.