Revision Session 4

ENGL112 – Close Reading Shakespeare

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ENGL113 – Gender and Sexuality: Queer Theory

Reading
 Judith Butler, from Subversive Bodily Acts, Gender Trouble
 Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience
 Miles Oberman, On Trans
 Gertrude Stein, Miss Furr and Miss Skeene

Questions for the Week

 What is meant by heteronormativity, and how does that concept differ

from heterosexuality?
 Who decides norms in sexuality (and how), and in abandoning a sense of
‘the normal’ what do we replace it with?
 Can any theory of sexuality encompass all sexual identities?
 In what sense is gender a performance?
 How do we understand sexual identities of other eras?
Key Words

 Sexuality  Identity
 Hegemony  Heteronormativity
 Homosociality  Drag
Notes
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ENGL116 – Meaning in Context: Pragmatics

Reading

 Chapman, S. (2011). Pragmatics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapter 4
 Culpeper, J and Schauer, G. (2009). ‘Pragmatics’. In Culpeper, J et al
(eds), English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 11, pp.202-220.
 Grundy, P. (2008). Doing Pragmatics. London: Hodder Education.
Chapter 4, pp. 71-76 and Chapter 5, pp.92-101.
 Huang, Y. (2014). Pragmatics, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chapters 2 and 4.

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