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River of Dissolution D. H. Lawrence and English Romanticism
By Cedric Hentschel
Copyright 1969
178 Pages
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Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the ambivalence of Lawrence’s attitude towards corruption. Clarke demonstrates that Lawrence’s attitude to ‘will’ and to sensational or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the same time this is a study of Lawrence’s debt as a novelist to the English Romantic poets. A tradition of metaphor is traced from the second... Read more
Introduction; Part 1: ‘Dissolve, and quite forget’: A Tradition of Metaphor; 1. Self-Destroying 2. Images of dissolution in Burke’s Enquiry 3. Abstraction and decay 4. Living disintegration 5. Intensification-in-reduction 6. ‘Dissolves, diffuses, dissipates’ 7. Flux and irony 8. The downward rhythm; Part 2: The Activity of Departure; 9. Reductive energy in The Rainbow 10. Women in Love: The rhetoric of corruption 11. Women in Love: Individuality and Belonging 12. Savage Visionaries 13. Mechanical and Paradisal: The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Conclusion; Notes; Index
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