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hey everyone. i'm new. my name is jan.
i took a class on women writers this semester, and i loveloveloved it. i had the best professor. anyway, the reason i am posting here is because i know you ladies love books as much as i do, and this is BY FAR, the most interesting take home final i've ever had to do. we have to pick three of these questions to answer in a short, informal essay. so if any of you want to help, hit me up with some comments! but even if you don't, they're still interesting scenarios to think about. :D
1. emily bronte and jane austen are having a sherry together at a table. their conversation touches on women, freedom, marriage, men. of what might the conversation consist? be careful to connect specifically with wuthering heights and emma in your answer.
2. julia alvarex and toni morrison are at the bar -- julia has a cuba libre and toni a perrier. they talk about being members of minorities, about being female, about being writers. do they agree/disagree? in what ways? be textually specific. refer to garcia girls, song of solomon. then virginia woolf arrives late. sherry for her. does the conversation change? (room of one's own).
3. this time, at the hotel bellevue; high tea. emily dickinson has been lured by sappho and adrienne rich out of amherst -- she took the metro from boston. in fact, she has brought her ginger tea cakes. the discussion involves poetic form, the importance of audience, the place of anger in the poetic voice; does this gathering end in bonding? in what ways? be specific: fascile #32, fragments from sappho, diving into the wreck.
4. both adrienne rich and edith wharton "dive into the wreck." in each case, what is the wreck? comment on courage; be specific: age of innocence and diving into the wreck.
5. alcott's little women has "tacit misogeny" in its polite world -- wharton in age of innocence confronts the same subjugation of women as alcott, but objects to it strongly. is there anything on which these two would agree? refer precisely to these texts in your answer. be specific as you compare and contrast.
6. what are the central ideas in jean baker miller's new psychology of women? relate them to any three works read this semester: The restrictions of unexamined stereotypes, and the possibilites of an authentic female voice. virginia woolf? morrison? sappho? austen?
i took a class on women writers this semester, and i loveloveloved it. i had the best professor. anyway, the reason i am posting here is because i know you ladies love books as much as i do, and this is BY FAR, the most interesting take home final i've ever had to do. we have to pick three of these questions to answer in a short, informal essay. so if any of you want to help, hit me up with some comments! but even if you don't, they're still interesting scenarios to think about. :D
1. emily bronte and jane austen are having a sherry together at a table. their conversation touches on women, freedom, marriage, men. of what might the conversation consist? be careful to connect specifically with wuthering heights and emma in your answer.
2. julia alvarex and toni morrison are at the bar -- julia has a cuba libre and toni a perrier. they talk about being members of minorities, about being female, about being writers. do they agree/disagree? in what ways? be textually specific. refer to garcia girls, song of solomon. then virginia woolf arrives late. sherry for her. does the conversation change? (room of one's own).
3. this time, at the hotel bellevue; high tea. emily dickinson has been lured by sappho and adrienne rich out of amherst -- she took the metro from boston. in fact, she has brought her ginger tea cakes. the discussion involves poetic form, the importance of audience, the place of anger in the poetic voice; does this gathering end in bonding? in what ways? be specific: fascile #32, fragments from sappho, diving into the wreck.
4. both adrienne rich and edith wharton "dive into the wreck." in each case, what is the wreck? comment on courage; be specific: age of innocence and diving into the wreck.
5. alcott's little women has "tacit misogeny" in its polite world -- wharton in age of innocence confronts the same subjugation of women as alcott, but objects to it strongly. is there anything on which these two would agree? refer precisely to these texts in your answer. be specific as you compare and contrast.
6. what are the central ideas in jean baker miller's new psychology of women? relate them to any three works read this semester: The restrictions of unexamined stereotypes, and the possibilites of an authentic female voice. virginia woolf? morrison? sappho? austen?