LITERATURA Y VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO

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CONTENIDOS DE LA ASIGNATURA

Programme:

1. Cultural Discourses and Gender Violence. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath’s Tale and The Clerk’s Tale.

1.1. Introduction. Symbolic Violence and its Impact on Gender and Domestic Violence.

1.2. Domestic Violence in the Middle Ages.

1.3. Prologue and The Wife of Bath’s Tale.

                                            - Introduction.

                                            - Prologue I.

                                            - Prologue II.

                                            - Prologue III.

                                            - The Wife of Bath’s Tale.

1.4. The Clerk’s Tale.

      2. Literary Erotization of Sexual Violence. William Shakespeare: The Rape of Lucrece.

2.1. Introduction.

2.2. English Renaissance and Rape.

2.3. The Rape of Lucrece: Male Rivalry and Political Symbolism.

          - The Attack on Troy.

          - The Blazon: Female Body Fragmentation.

          - Tarquin: The Assailant’s Gaze.

          - Lucrece: Victim or Adulteress?

             3. Evolution of the Literary Representations of Gender Violence. Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.

3.1. Introduction.

3.2. Models of Patriarchal Repression and Gender Violence in Nineteenth-Century English Literature: Precedent and Subsequent Representations.

3.3. Wuthering Heights: Subverting the Romantic Paradigm of Gender Violence.

             4. Critical Revisions and Rewritings of the Canon. Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad.  

                          4.1. Denouncing Domestic Violence by Rewriting the Canon.

             4.2. The Penelopiad: The Odyssey Read from the Perspective of a Victim of Domestic Violence.