March 11
D.H. Lawrence and the Question of American Literature
Jonathan Ivry, associate professor and chair, Literature, Writing, and Film
What does it mean to read D.H. Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature today, a hundred years after its composition? Does this book, hailed by several generations of literary critics as itself a classic study of American literature, still have relevance? No dry, sober piece of literary criticism, Lawrence’s study is full of bold, even outrageous claims about the American experience and the writers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who sought to capture that experience. This presentation will revisit the life and career of D.H. Lawrence, his controversial legacy, and the question of what constitutes American literature today.
Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public. Registration is not required. Masks may be required in common areas at Fairhaven Senior Services. Please be prepared on arrival. Lectures will be recorded and posted to our website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.
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