ENGL2321 - 01 - Love and Gender in Film and Literature

This course focuses on representations of gender as they relate to love relationships in a variety of films and British literary texts. The course provides an introduction to gender theory as it applies to literary and media studies, with a heavy emphasis on pre-1700 British literature. Readings may include the sonnet sequences of Lady Mary Wroth and Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Virginia Wolf's Orlando, and Jeanette Winterson's The Power Book. Films may include Il Postino (Radford 1994), Soldier's Girl (Pierson 2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry 2004), Bridget Jones's Diary (Maguire 2001), and Melancholia (Von Trier 2011).