Science & Technology in Literature, Art & Literature, Fiction Writing, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 20th Century - Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Dance Reference
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Overview
These nine "meditations" employ a variety of structuralist and poststructuralist critical methodologies by way of illuminating some of Lawrence's major works: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover, and several short stories. The main approach is tropological: that is, these works are explored in terms of their rhetorical tropes (most often in terms of metaphor and metonymy). The meditations also draw significantly on narratology, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction. Lawrence has not previously attracted such contemporary approaches.Editorials
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Rather than a chronological approach, Doherty (retired, literary theory, U. of Turku, Finland) proceeds from a prism of vantage points in critiquing Lawrence's , , , , and several short stories. Rhetorical, structuralist, deconstructive, feminist, and psychoanalytic approaches are applied to Lawrence's eternal traingle of love, sex, and death. The final chapter stages a dialog between Lawrence and Derrida to contrast them. Portions of the book have appeared elsewhere in different guise. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Keith Cushman
"Gerald Doherty's essays on D. H. Lawrence have been among the very best (if not THE best) done on the writer in recent decades. It is challenging after the intense attention critics have given Lawrence over the past seven decades, to say anything fresh and worthwhile about his books. Theorizing Lawrence does that impressively-his explorations of Lawrence's works are always original, always insightful." Dennis Jackson, Former Editor, The D. H. Lawrence Review "Theorizing Lawrence: Nine Meditations on Tropological Themes is a stimulating, original, distinctive and distinguished essay in literary interpretation." --The D. H. Lawrence ReviewBook Details
Published
July 1, 1999
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c1999.
Pages
201
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820439761