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Instructors: M. A. Ruth Knepel
Event type:
proseminar
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Displayed in timetable as:
Literary Theory PS
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Literature:
Literature (will be provided in the department library):
Balbert, Peter (1989): D.H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination: Essays on Sexual Identity and Feminist Misreading. London, Macmillan.
Bell, Michael (1992): D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being. Cambridge University Press.
Clarke, Colin (ed.) (1969): D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow and Women in Love: A Casebook. London: Macmillan.
Connell, Raewyn (2009): Gender. Polity Press.
Fernihough, Anne (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge University Press.
Gamble, Sarah (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism”. Routledge.
Holderness, Graham (1986): Sexual Politics: Homosexuality, Feminism. Open University Press.
Horlacher, Stefan (2005): Masculinities. Narr.
Läubli, Martina/Sahli, Sabrina (2011): Männlichkeiten denken. Aktuelle Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen Masculinity Studies. Transcript.
Pinkney, Tony (1990):D.H. Lawrence and modernism. University of Iowa Press.
Squires, Michael/Cushman, Keith (1990): The Challenge of D.H. Lawrence. University of Wisconsin Press.
Williams, Linda Ruth (1993): Sex in the head: visions of femininity and film in D.H. Lawrence. Wayne State University Press.
Worthen, John (ed.) (2005): D. H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers. A Casebook. Oxford University Press.
Official Course Description:
"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
-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.
The role of men in Lawrence’s novels and his challenging views on gender roles have been discussed not only by feminist theorists but are also a topic for the newly emerging masculinity studies.
In this seminar we will look at three novels by D.H. Lawrence from this contemporary gender perspective, analyzing his work and its complex representations of men and masculinity in the 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.
Students are required to purchase:
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Penguin Classics
--, Sons and Lovers, 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
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