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D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being

By Michael Bell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0511983425, 9780511983429
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2692607 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2014-06-02 12:40:19

Description

D. H. Lawrence once wrote that 'we have no language for the feelings'. The remark testifies to the struggle in his novels to express his sophisticated understanding of the nature of being through the intransigent medium of language. Michael Bell argues that Lawrence's unfashionable status stems from a failure to perceive within his informal expression the nature and complexity of his ontological vision. He traces the evolution of the struggle for its articulation through the novels, and looks at the way in which Lawrence himself made it a conscious theme in his writing. Embracing in this argument Lawrence's failures as a writer, his rhetorical stridency and also his primitivist extremism, Michael Bell creates a powerful and fresh sense of his true importance as a novelist.

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