This course looks at the way 20th century women writers reflect upon their own modernity and experiment with literary forms. I will focus on how women writers revise conventional norms of writing by offering new ways of representing gender characteristics in order to avoid their becoming essentialised. Through the examples of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing, but also Angela Carter and Racher Cusk, students will analyse literary explorations of pathology and motherhood. Students will also be invited to address the links there might be between literary experimentations and what could be regarded as a form of empowerment or emancipation.
Langue(s) d'enseignement
Français
Bibliographie
the following books must be bought and read).
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, OUP, 2009 (1925)
Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child, HarperCollins, 2007 (1988)
