32203
Seminar
WiSe 12/13: Women in American Modernist Fiction
Ben Robbins
Kommentar
In Andreas Huyssen's essay 'Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other', the theorist outlines how the opposition of modernism and mass culture was insistently codified along gender lines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; this process enabled modernist writers working within a masculine aesthetic to use their image of woman as 'a receptacle for all kinds of projections, displaced fears, and anxieties (both personal and political), which were brought about by modernization and the new social conflicts'. This seminar will seek to trace howmale modernist writers portray and position women within American fiction of the 1920s and 1930s to either uphold or to questiongender division. The seminar will also show how female modernists orientated themselves within this cultural movement and critiqued gender and cultural oppositions within fiction from the same period. We will consider selected works by Djuna Barnes, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Anita Loos, and reflect on 20th century developments in modernist and feminist theory alongside these texts. Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Di, 16.10.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 23.10.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 30.10.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 06.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 13.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 20.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 27.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 04.12.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 11.12.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 18.12.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 08.01.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 15.01.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 22.01.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 29.01.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 05.02.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 12.02.2013 10:00 - 12:00