Topic: Renaissance Women Writers
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MWF | Callaway Center C203 | Sharon Strocchia. | HAP. | 4 | 1041 | TBA. |
Content: Renaissance women left an astonishing textual legacy written in various genres: letters, treatises, plays, autobiographies, novella. This course uses a close study of selected texts to examine some of the major themes that concerned women writers between 1400 and 1650. The course also situates female-authored texts in their historical context and explores the barriers that women writers encountered in producing and disseminating their work.
Possible Texts: The Paston Letters; Marguerite of Navarre, The Heptameron; Cecilia Ferrazzi, Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint; Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women; Sister Maria Celeste Galileo, Letters to Father; Veronica Franco, Poems and Selected Letters; Glikl bas Judah Leib, Memoirs.
Grading: Class attendance and participation; two short papers; one longer essay. No exams.
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