The Unrest Cure According to Lawrence, Saki, and Lewis.

Autor: Lane, Christopher
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Zdroj: Modernism/Modernity; Nov2004, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p769-796, 28p
Abstrakt: The article discusses about the writing style of the writer D.H. Lawrence. Although critics have tried parsing D.H. Lawrence's philosophical claims, turning them into coherent propositions, his fiction not only thwarts these efforts but renders them futile, even obsolete. The four protagonists in the book "Women in Love," cannot decide, for instance, whether the apocalyptic scenarios plaguing them herald their extinction or promise tentative forms of renewal. Coupled with Lawrence's episodic and repetitious style, their rancorous exchanges yield only fleeting clarity. Viewed overall, the novel appears contradictory, the characters flailing as they try to specify what they think and want. In themselves worth studying, these effects can mask the novel's best points about personal and impersonal forms of violence. While domestic rancor, sexual strife, and interpersonal contempt partly account for this animosityc the novel's inchoate forms of hatred end up representing violence as a metaphysical attribute, a palpable revelation of mystic otherness.
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