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Dr Catherine Brown, Lecturer in English Literature, St Hilda's College, Oxford University
Wednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00-19:00
Does D.H. Lawrence have a Sense of Humour?
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Catherine Brown, Lecturer in English Literature, St Hilda's College, Oxford University
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: Wine Room, King's College, Cambridge
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Abstract
D.H. Lawrence has often been described not only as humourless, but as unintentionally amusing in his seriousness. This short talk allows Lawrence to play the mimic, the buffoon, the enfant-terrible, the pricker of pretensions, the defensive self-parodist, the leering Pan, the divinely-laughing Buddha, and the genial, melancholic, hysterical, and savage satirist. In word and deed from adolescence to Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Delivered in a spirit of seriousness, in the service of Lawrence’s reputation.
Series This talk is part of the King's Occasional Lectures series.
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