Lehrende: Jan Wilm
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Orga-Einheit: FB02 / Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Institut)
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Literary Theory PS
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
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Lehrinhalte: "they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women." -D.H. Lawrence D.H. Lawrence's oeuvre is one of the most exciting and provoking in the modernist period of English literature. With the pursuit of personal freedom evinced by the characters, the often lyrical passages of the novels and stories, and with a worldview that becomes more nihilistic as the oeuvre progresses, Lawrence's writing is inherently complex, often paradoxical, and polarizing. Among the many fascinating aspects of his oeuvre are the varied representations of women in his fictional works. Women are objects of sexual admiration, they are lone fighters for the family abandoned by a man, or they are solitary human beings battling for their own personal liberation from the throes placed upon them by society and tradition. In this seminar we will look at three novels by D.H. Lawrence from a gender persepctive, analyzing his work through various theoretical lenses in an attempt to grapple with the complex representations of women and femininity in his novels Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). Students will be introduced to general gender concepts as well as to gendered readings of Lawrence's fascinating, polemical, shocking, sexual oeuvre. In order to participate in this seminar all students must have read Sons and Lovers by the beginning of the term. There will be a reading check-up in the first session.
Literatur: D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Classics --, Women in Love, Penguin Classics --, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Penguin Classics Please get the Penguin Classics Editions of Lawrence's novels, so that we all share the same editions. A reader with further primary and secondary material will be made available by the beginning of the term
