Sprachkunst Jahrgang XLI/2010/2. Halbband, pp. 221-232, 2012/07/18
Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
Where should Benn’s famous role-centred poem be placed in the literary history of cancer? Why does the latter take its beginning comparatively late only? Why does it have to be always and in any case women who are affected by it? Why does it ever and again attack their female organs? To what extent does the assignment of parts in the poem pertain to these relationships? How is the poem placed in the tradition of didactic poetry? Queries of this kind will find their answer in gender theory.
