Instr:                  Sheila Roberts
Office:                CRT 597,   229-4534
e-mail:                svrob@uwm.edu
Office hours:    by appointment

Course Information:                     TR 4:30 to 5:45pm.     CRT 468

Course Description

 In this course we will examine fiction, poetry, photographs, and films created by women who expressed the need to undermine traditional norms; experiment with new forms; challenge
 the well-established Modernist aesthetic; and depict how the words "feminine" or "unfeminine" are merely umbrella terms overshadowing the full complexity, richness, and dangerousness of  female experience.
 
We will read and examine, as available, the following texts:

Fiction:
 Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
 Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
 Good Night Sweet Ladies by Caroline Blackwood
 The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
 Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement
 Down Among the Women by Fay Weldon
 The Lover by Marguerite Duras
 Les Guerrilleres by Monique Wittig
 A Selection of Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Marianne Moore, and others
 A Selection of Photographs by Diane Arbus, Sally Mann, and others.
 A Discussion of Films such as Go Fishing, The Song Catcher, Swept Away, The Seven Beauties, et al.

 Assignments: Grades will be apportioned in this way:
 20% Five abstracts (1-2 pp.) from any five fictional texts. The nature of abstracts will be explained in class.
 10% One essay on a photograph or pair of related photographs (3 pp.)
 10% One essay on a film (3 pp.)
 20% One twenty-minute class presentation on a poem or group of poems.
 40% A Final Paper (8-10 pp.)

Students who are consistently late, absent, and uncommunicative, run the risk of failing this course.

Religious Holidays will be respected.