The Renaissance Woman
COL 250
Spring 2021
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This course takes seriously the socioeconomic, cultural, religious, and physical restrictions placed on women writing in the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a selection of literary works, we will examine the ways in which early modern women exercised considerable authorial agency in the poetic-fashioning of the literary tropes, genres, and forms of thought that they inherited. Often re-forming, reinventing, revising, and re-imagining poetic spaces, these women developed their own styles of critique and creation from within their historically specific concerns. This course recovers works that were frequently written out of the study of the early modern during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in order to grapple with the imaginative voices of women writing under the constraints of their time. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (COL) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Giulia Bigolina, URANIA: A ROMANCE
Madeleine de Scudery, THE STORY OF SAPPHO
Moderata Fonte, FLORIDORO
Margaret Cavendish, THE BLAZING WORLD
Juana Ines de la Cruz, SONNETS
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Examinations and Assignments:
2 papers and 1 final project |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Texts will be taught in translation using dual language edition (whenever possible). Students are encouraged to utilize their language skills in the original. No foreign language is required.
This course is open to all years and majors. However, completion of an FYS is strongly recommended. |
| Instructor(s): Ponce-Hegenauer,Gabrielle Piedad Times: ..T.R.. 11:10AM-12:30PM; Location: BOGH114; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 17 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 2 |
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