IT4014 Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

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Module coordinator

Dr C Rossignoli

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Module Staff

Dr C Rossignoli

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Module description

This module explores the ambivalent relationship of women and culture in the early modern period by focussing on the one hand on the conceptualisation and codification of gender in texts written by both men and women; on the other, on changes in the representation of women, particularly in literary texts. Renaissance notions of the female self will be examined from differing perspectives, and exploring women’s engagement with their social condition, their access to education and a readership, and authorship in different genres. Key themes, such as the growing codification of public behaviours according to gender, the reinterpretation of female mythological as well as biblical figures, the transformation in visual representations of women, will be considered, as well as the work of influential ground-breaking writers such as Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Tullia d’Aragona e Arcangela Tarabotti.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS IT2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 1.5 hour seminar and 1 surgery hour.

Scheduled learning hours

16

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

134

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.