Thematically relevant courses offered by our colleagues in the autumn term of the 2019/20 academic year:
- Dr. Séllei Nóra
AN32002BA01, AN3204OMA British Society and Gender: Introduction to Gender Studies (BA third year - British Studies track; teachers’ programme) – compulsory/optional lecture course
Wed 14.00-15.40; Rm. XIV
This course will explore how gender is constructed in and by society (history, sciences, psychoanalysis, language, teaching and the media), and will also investigate cultural texts like myths and literature. Students will be provided an insight into the approach that gender is a concept crucial to the understanding of our world, of the public and private relations that all of us (males and females) are participants in. Gender studies, thus, is an area that facilitates critical thinking in regard to the overt or latent gender bias of the institutional system, including also what is considered the private realm, very often misconceived as a “refuge from the political”. The course will also investigate cultural texts like certain passages from the Bible, myths, and fairy tales. The disciplinary approaches of the course will range from sociology and discourse theory to psychoanalysis, from linguistics through teaching methodology to cultural and literary studies.
Study materials:
Uploaded texts:
- Friedan
- Moi
- Shlain
- Chodorow
- Barry
- Connell
The other reading materials can be found in the Gender Studies Reading Packet, distributed at the first lecture, and to be returned to the Institute Library. The same course packet can also be obtained from Rm 101 of the Institute Library in the form of a pdf-file.
AN 2110MA03 Gender Studies: The Female Künstlerroman (English Studies MA, years 1 and 2; British Studies track) - required optional seminar
Wed 16.00-17.40; Rm 111
In this course devoted to the genre of the Künstlerroman, the basic issue addressed will be whether there are specificities/what kinds of specificities there are on the basis of which the female Künstlerroman as a subgenre can be defined. To explore this question, after a theoretical introduction to the genre and to the nature of (female) autobiography, texts by women writers of diverse backgrounds will be read and discussed: British (contemporary: Margaret Drabble), New-Zealander (Janet Frame), West-Indian-British-Parisian (Jean Rhys), American-British (Sylvia Plath), and American-Chinese (Maxine Hong Kingston).
BTAN2104MA07 ADVANCED TOPICS: Women and Madness in Literature and Film (MA in English Studies: Literary and Cultural Studies track, year 1)
Thu 14.00-15.40; Rm 119 (Országh Room)
Designed to be interdisciplinary, the course offers to address the issue how the image of madness serves multiple purposes in works of English, American, Canadian and New Zealand literature in the 19th and 20th centuries, how the term madness and the manipulation of the term “madness” basically serve the purposes of, and perpetuate, the dominant patriarchal power structure. By relying on Freudian, Foucauldian, Laingian and feminist theories of madness (with special emphasis on hysteria), the course intends to bring to the surface the implications of the prevalent discourses of madness in the past two hundred years, and to examine their interconnectedness with literary representations: not only how stories of madness reflect the power structure but also the way how madness may function as a subversive discourse in some literary texts, including the analysis of theories contesting the subversive potential of madness.
The issue of women and madness in literature exceeds the boundaries of literary studies: partly by its gender and social studies aspect, the course can develop new perspectives on current situations of how discursive systems create “reality”, thus doing the course, students can acquire further tools of critical thinking that may help them in analysing human subjectivity and discursive phenomena in other fields of study as well.
- Dr. Bényei Tamás
- Dr. Bülgözdi Imola
AN33000BA AN3306OMA The American Short Story in the 20th centruy
The aim of this course is to introduce a variety of short story genres and give an overview of the classics (Faulkner and Hemingway) and the new voices that appeared in the second half of the 20th century (for example, science fiction, cyberpunk, Chicano, and Native American short stories). The course will provide insight into social, racial and ethnic factors influencing subjectivity, gender and the relationship between individual and power. The course will also focus on the visual representations of these genres in popular culture (for instance, the figure of the hard-boiled detective in Film Noir, the idealized image of the noble savage, or the cyberpunk world that provided the inspiration for The Matrix trilogy)
Fri 10 - 11.40, Rm 54
The American Short Story
- Dr. Győri Zsolt
- Dr. Kalmár György
Bodies on the Screen
- Dr. Mathey Éva
No gender-related class in this term.
- Ureczky Eszter
AN32006BA10, AN5401OMA Doctors and Disease in Literature and Film
Tuesday 18.00-19.40 (rm. 55)
- Hudácskó Brigitta
No gender-related class in this term.
