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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"D.H. Lawrence"”.
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“Curiously Alive and Vital”: D.H. Lawrence, Gender and the Body
… body to identity and fulfilment in three of D.H. Lawrence’s best-known novels. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow, and Women in Love, each written in the early twentieth century before Lawrence’s death in 1930, Lawrence represents the bodies of his characters as equally as integral to their …
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The Male-Female Principles: The Art and the Metaphysic of D.H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence's purpose in life was two-fold: as both artist and prophet, he sought to express in terns of his own soul the realities of life, and to change them as well. Thus, he was aware that his and "every work of art adheres to a system of morality," and that his art might also be a vehicle …
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Prophets of the beast: the modernist esotericism of D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats
… the influence of the esoteric tradition on D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats’ thought and examines both authors’ writings in light of the antidemocratic political religions that emerged during and after their respective careers. While a number of extant studies investigate the connection between …
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Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin used the image of Winston Smith's blank notebook in George Orwell's 1984 to illustrate the excitement experienced by the writer faced with an as yet unwritten text. He explains that: the books the past has given us are printed; they are magnificent, but they are finite. Only the blank …
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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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Bildung and the metaphor of growth in the novels of T. Hardy and D.H. Lawrence
… several nineteenth century English versions, and Lawrence's revitalisation of a genre which had become unfashionable and almost moribund. It examines Jude the Obscure (1896) and three of Lawrence's novels in the light of a distinction between a Bildungsroman and an Entwicklungsroman, showing where …
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The Fifth Sparrow: In Memory of Mollie Skinner
… correspondence with the British author D.H. Lawrence, who she met in WA—and secondary writings. Skinner’s writing has been described as akin to an “untended garden,” rich in imagery, but scattered and often difficult to follow. In recognition of this, my play takes the form of a series of …
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"It was the bruise of the war": The Effects of Injury and Trauma on the Construction of Masculinity in Hemingway and Lawrence
Ernest Hemingway and D.H. Lawrence were two authors best known, perhaps even infamous, for their portrayals of gender and particularly masculinity, which has led to the levying of criticisms and challenges by countless feminist critics. But rather than each author writing and reflecting a universal …
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Making Waves: The Mermaid as Female Muse, with Special Reference to the Writings of H.D and Virginia Woolf
… own female aesthetic. It has been noted that D.H Lawrence and T.S. Eliot show anxiety about water, not affinity with it, in some of their texts. Images of crustaceans or loathsome transgressive figures indicate concern with loss of identity, while aridity symbolizes a spiritual wasteland. Unease …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… Natalie Clifford Barney, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, and Harry Crosby. Marianne Moore will also be discussed. In addition, although Irishman James Joyce and Englishman Ford Maddox Fod expatriated from countries other than America, their contributions to the lifestyle and/or …