EGL 268 - Gender and Genre

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) (Offered intermittently) How do conventions of gender difference inflect the way stories are told and interpreted? We will explore a variety of historical contexts as well as the concepts of “gender” and “genre” while investigating basic narrational elements such as the contract between narrator and addressee, framing devices, closure and delay and how these elements contribute to a construction of gender categories. Prerequisite(s): EGL 100 or EGL 101 or EGL 102 or a grade of 5 on the AP English Literature or Language test. CC: HUL, HUM