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33372-01 - Lecture: Gender Roles/Masculinities in US-American Fiction (2 CP)

Semester spring semester 2013
Course frequency Once only
Lecturers Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Content The growth of interest in the critical study and theorizing of men and masculinities has, according to Jeff Hearn, derived from several, not always compatible, directions and traditions:
"First, there have been various feminist critiques of men. Second, there have been critiques from (male) Gay Studies and Queer Studies. Third, there have been some men's specific and explicit responses to feminism." This lecture course seeks to familiarize students with recent theoretical concepts of Gender Studies from masculine perspectives (Theweleit, Connell, Kimmel, Hearn et al.) as well as with a re-reading of major US-American modernist and postmodernist fiction from these critical vantage points. Texts by, among others, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Auster, DeLillo, Ellis, McInerney, Eugenides, Roth, Irving, Lethem, Cole will generate fresh readings of male bravery, endurance, success, pain, failure and love. Cultural representations of masculinities will also include films (e.g. by Michael Mann, Kimberley Pierce) and TV-Series (from Mad Men to Hunger Games).
Bibliography A READER will be available after the first week of the semester.
Comments Mandatory for students wishing to participate in the PROSEMINAR "Gender Roles/Masculinities in US-American Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction" (33370-01)

 

Admission requirements Open to all students
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media No specific media used

 

Interval Weekday Time Room

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Modules Interphilologische Lehrveranstaltungen für die Nordistik (Bachelor's degree subject: Nordische Philologie)
Interphilologische Lehrveranstaltungen für die Nordistik (MA) (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology)
Interphilologisches Angebot: Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Deutsche Philologie)
Modul Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Master's degree subject: Modern German Literature (Start of studies before 01.08.2013))
Modul English & American Literature (Master's degree subject: English)
Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch)
Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch)
Modul Learning about Literature and Culture (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch)
Modul Literaturtheorie (Master's degree program: Literaturwissenschaft/Literary Studies/Etudes Littéraires)
Modul Refining Skills in Literature and Culture (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch)
Modul Research Skills in English Linguistics or Literature (Master's degree subject: English)
Modul Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Bachelor's degree subject: Geschlechterforschung)
Vertiefungsmodul (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich)
Assessment format record of achievement
Assessment details Final written Assessment; regular attendance and readings
Assessment registration/deregistration Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required
Repeat examination one repetition, repetition counts
Scale Pass / Fail
Repeated registration no repetition
Responsible faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Offered by Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

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