G490 - Reading Group on Contemporary Literature: Sylvia Plath's "Medusa" and Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck": the body in women's writing
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Verónica Storni Fricke
Verónica Storni Fricke is now doing her doctorate studies on feminist criticism of Shakespeare's plays at UBA, Filosofía y Letras. She is a graduate English teacher from IES en Lenguas Vivas, specialized in English Literature. Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Tenured Lecturer in the Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism" at IES en Lenguas Vivas. IB English teacher at Tarbut College and Instituto Ballester Schule.
Literature-lovers.
In this reading group session. Previous reading of the material is required:
The poems are available at: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/medusa/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co0CGv9K5SI&feature=related and http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/adrienne_rich/11738 Participants will expected to share their analysis of the poems; the coordinator will introduce some theory on the body in gender studies to encourage further enjoyment and new readings of these texts.
- The body and the binary opposition nature/culture.
- Postmodern Feminism and the body: avoiding essentialism. - The connection between the body, sex and gender. - Jouissance and the pre-oedipal stage. - Irigayar's the "haptic" and the "optic". - The re-writing of the myth of the Medusa. - Sexuality. The self and the other.
- Braidotti, R (2005) "Devenir mujer o la diferencia sexual reconsiderada" y "Meta(l) morfosis: el devenir de la máquina" en Metamorfosis. Hacia una teoría materialista del devenir. Madrid, Ediciones Akal.
- Butler, J (1990) "Capítulo 3. Actos corporales subversivos y Conclusión: de la parodia a la política" en El género en disputa. México. PUEG, UNAM y Paidós, 2001. - Butler, J. (2002) Cuerpos que importan. Sobre los límites materiales y discursivos del "sexo" Paidós: Buenos Aires. - Cixous, H. "The Laugh of the Medusa" in Walder, D. (ed.) (1990) Literature in the Modern World. Oxford University Press: New York. - Cixous, H. "Sorties" in Lodge, D. (ed.) (1988) Modern Criticism and Theory. A Reader. New York: Longman. - Haraway, D. (1991) Ciencia, cyborgs y mujeres. La reinvención de la naturaleza. Ed. Cátedra: Universitat de Valencia. Madrid. - Huyssen, A. (2002) "La cultura de masas como mujer: lo otro del modernismo", en Después de la gran división. Modernismo, cultura de masas, posmodernismo. Buenos Aires, Adriana Hidalgo. - Jameson, F. (1999) "Transformaciones de la imagen en la posmodernidad" en El giro cultural, Buenos Aires: Manantial. - Kristeva, J. (1988) "Sobre la abyección", en Poderes de la perversión. México, Siglo Veintiun Editores, 1988. - Lacqueur, T. (1990) Making Sex. Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press: London. - Rich, A. (1979) On Lies, Secrets and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978. WW Norton and Co: New York. - Rutter, C. (2001) Enter the Body. Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage. Routledge: London. - Weigel, S. (1999) Cuerpo, imagen y espacio en Walter Benjamín. Una relectura. Paidós: Buenos Aires.
- Textual analysis: tone, themes, diction and form.
- Group discussion.
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