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D. H. Lawrence and the 'Femme Fatale'
D. H. Lawrence used the literary and cultural stereotype of the femme fatale to justify and to express his fear of women. His fatal women, all terrifying, are of two distinct types: actively hostile, and indifferent. The first group appears in various forms: as seducers and betrayers, similar in …
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The Mexican Religion of D. H. Lawrence: An Analysis of the Religion Created by D. H. Lawrence in the Plumed Serpent
The Plumed Serpent. D. H. Lawrence's novel based on his experiences in old and New Mexico, occupies a unique place of importance in the understanding of D. H. Lawrence's religious thought. Religion, it is true, is a recurrent topic in the works of Lawrence. He hinted at his theological beliefs in …
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The Material Imagination: Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy
… space. I adduce two major influences, D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy, who appealed to Larkin as a self-proclaimed ‘materialist’ (Letters to Monica, p. 15). He admired these writers for their ability not only to capture a ‘tough rich sense of life’, but crucially ‘to relate any given part of …
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Elements of Existentialism and Phenomenology in the Works of D. H. Lawrence
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Marriage and Dialogue in the Novels of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence
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The Love Ethic in Selected Works of Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence
… of love. This last concept will explain Lawrence's theory of star equilibrium, Flaubert's fantasy of an ideal, unattainable love and its consequences, and the dichotomy in Tolstoy between his view of physical passion and Christian love of a married couple.
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… individuals and an artistic group, namely, D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and an artistic circle centering around Alfred Stieglitz. In the tradition of Western culture, touch is often regarded as the “lowest” sense while vision is privileged as the “intellectual sense.” …
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Mind and World in Literary Modernism: Cognition and Experience in D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
… between cognition and experience in D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf. Drawing new perspectives from cognitive science, this thesis complicates the long-established critique of modernism's ‘inward turn’. I ask: does depicting interior experiences entail …
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The Single Green Light and The Splendid and Terrible Spectrum: A Study of the Secular Romance Quest in the Novels of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence
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Rough Hewn
… the long work table and the fence!" D. H. Lawrence
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
… of Walter Pater, Michael Field, H.D., D. H. Lawrence, and Mina Loy work to capture the opaque impersonality of the subject---to represent impersonality as the very condition of personality---without indulging in an Eliotic dream of escape from the body, the ego, or socially-mediated identity …
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"A question of relationship": the flower of consciousness in the fiction of D.H. Lawrence
… the most frequently remarked traits of D.H. Lawrence's genius. But few critics have examined the individual phenomena so transformed. This study makes an effort to correct that neglect by focusing on Lawrence's treatment of flowers in his fiction. Daniel Stiffler has opened the way with his …
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Figuring Disability and Illness: D. H. Lawrence’s Masculine Somatology
This thesis seeks to situate D. H. Lawrence as a disabled writer and to understand his writing of the male body from both a social model of disability and a biographical perspective. In so doing, the thesis contributes a fresh approach to Lawrence studies while at the same time fostering critical …
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Microscopy and Modernist Fiction from Hardy to Beckett
This thesis explores how four writers – D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – registered shock experiences of the microscopic in prose fiction. Focusing on microscopes and the unfamiliar microworlds they reveal, I illustrate ways in which optical instruments had the …
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
… at the fiction and non-fiction work of D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West, and Samuel Beckett, this dissertation attempts to understand the recurrent equation of automatic behavior and twentieth-century modernity. Even as modernists vigorously rejected habitual behavior as the very …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… Chapter Three, ‘Cannibal Metaphors in D. H. Lawrence’, explores anthropophagic imagery and its socio-political and cultural import in Lawrence’s fiction. Lawrence appropriates this colonial stereotype about the racialised Other and utilises it in calculated cannibal metaphors to subvert the …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence, this dissertation argues that the short story form is ideally suited to expressing concerns about precisely the opposite occurring. Writing between 1880 and 1930, Hardy, Joyce, Rhys, Huxley and Lawrence all posited that indifference, …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… expression. Thus, for example, a dying D. H. Lawrence exchanged letters with the editor ofThe Architectural Review, a correspondence culminating in what proved his final piece of writing, an article calling for a wholesale clearance of traditional forms: “Pull down my native village to the …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
… novels such as Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, and James Joyce’s Ulysses reject the conventional hierarchical arrangement of characters, according to which minor characters collectively shore up the centrality of the protagonist, and posit in its stead a more flattened …