G534 - Reading Group on Contemporary Literature: Alice Munro's "The Love of a Good Woman" in The Love of a Good Woman

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	08 May 2010	10:00 AM	12:30 PM

Literature-lovers.

Reading Group Session.

Women's relationship with their bodies and their representation in the text. Creating emotional intimacy. Secrecy, power and desire. The proleptic imagination and control. The southern Ontario Gothic. The elements of the grotesque.

The short story is available at ESSARP Centre on enrolment.

- Armstrong, N. (1991) "Mujeres modernas" en Deseo y ficción doméstica.
- Braidotti, R. (2000) "Hacia una nueva representación del sujeto" y "La diferencia sexual como proyecto político nómade", en Sujetos nómades, Buenos Aires, Paidós.
- Braidotti, R. (2002) Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. Chapters 3 - epilogue. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Braidotti, R. (2006) Transposiciones. Sobre la ética nómada. Gedisa: Barcelona.
- Cixous "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.
- Domínguez, N. (2007) De donde vienen los niños. Maternidad y escritura en la cultura argentina. Beatriz Viterbo editora: Rosario.
- Freud, S., (1919) "The ‘Uncanny’" in Sage, V., The Gothic Novel. Macmillan: London, 1990.
- Molloy, S. (2006) "Identidades textuales femeninas: estrategias de autofiguración", Mora N. 12, Buenos Aires: IIEGE/FFyL-UBA, diciembre.

- Group discussion. - Textual analysis: characterization, plot, themes, point of view, writer's techniques. - Applying feminist theory to enrich the reading of the text.