EGL 268 - (284) Gender and Genre

Course Units: 1

(Not offered in 2015-16) 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. Common Curriculum CC: HUL