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White male disability in modernist literature : reading Lawrence, Hemingway, and Faulkner
White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled? Embodying more than just crises of masculinity, white male disability is a reckoning with old orders, provoking new perspectives on life and love in the modern era.
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The American Lawrence
Although he is frequently perceived as a distinctly English author, in this study D. H. Lawrence is reevaluated as a creator and critic of American literature as well. From 1922-1925, during his \"savage pilgrimage\" in Mexico and New Mexico, he completed the core of what this book terms his \"American oeuvre\"-including his major volume of criticism,Studies in Classic American Literature. Lee Jenkins portrays Lawrence as a transatlantic writer whose significant body of work embraces and adapts both English and American traditions and innovations.
The American Lawrence looks at the modernist writer's experiences in the Americas and his fascination with indigenous culture. It illustrates how Lawrence played an important role in the formation of American literary criticism and the American literary canon. It also shows how Lawrence creatively employs the generic conventions of classic American fiction in his own work. Reassessing Lawrence's relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, Jenkins offers new insights into the literary exchange between America and Europe.
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Modernists at Odds
\"Challenges the unhelpful polarization of Lawrence and Joyce in much twentieth-century literary criticism and offers intriguing alternatives to what is surely a reductive approach to the achievements of both writers.\"—Fiona Becket, author of The Complete Critical Guide to D. H. Lawrence
\"A groundbreaking collection. Sexuality, censorship, publishing, and rivalry are all treated with a fresh eye; cutting-edge archival research is brought to the fore; and new perspectives such as ecocriticism are among the many highlights.\"—Susan Mooney, author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality
Modernism's most contentious rivals, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, were polar opposites—stylistically, personally, and professionally—yet their lives, works, and careers bear striking similarities. They shared the same literary agent, published in the same literary magazines, fought legal battles against censorship, and were both pirated by Samuel Roth. This is the first book to explore the resonances between the two writers, shattering the historical silence between Joyceans and Lawrentians.
The parallels run deep between these epic figures of the literary canon, and this volume explores the classic modernist paradoxes shared by the two writers. Both were at once syncretists and shatterers, bourgeois cosmopolitans, prudish libertines, displaced nostalgists, and rebels against their native lands. Considering mutual themes such as gender, class, horseracing, nature, religion, exile, and modernism's fascination with Egyptology, these essays highlight the many intersections in the major novels and short fiction of Joyce and Lawrence. Modernists at Odds is a long overdue extended comparison of two of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles Contributors Enda Duffy | Earl G. Ingersoll | Louise Kane | Matthew J. Kochis | Eleni Loukopoulou | Heather L. Lusty | Carl F. Miller | Jennifer Mitchell | Margot Norris
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Shakespeare's Hamlet and Lawrence Agonistes
This book is the first to examine the influence of Shakespeare--particularly Hamlet--on D. H. Lawrence. Using the Bloomian theory of the \"anxiety of influence\" to probe the startling depths of Lawrence's agon with his towering precursor Shakespeare, it closely examines Lawrence's crypto-Jewish identity, as well as that of many of his highly individual characters, who embody the characteristics of Old Testament figures, and in so doing infuse a patriarchal strength and divine \"religious\" sublimity into civilized life. Lawrence's claims about the self-sacrificing influence of Christianity on Shakespeare's Hamlet, on the other hand, demonstrate how this influence carries over into the submission of the subject and the decline of Western Civilization. The book extrapolates this decline into a critique of the modern-day left-wing ideology that appropriates the self-abnegating individual to its collectivist ends.In responding agonistically to Shakespeare's Hamlet, Lawrence claims a far more complete, vital, and salubrious \"consciousness\" and a Weltanschauung that makes for greater, more fulfilling \"life\" thanks to the inner strength, psychic and sexual power of the Lawrentian \"Self Supreme.\"The book will appeal to Lawrence and Shakespeare scholars and enthusiasts who wish to appreciate Lawrence and Shakespeare as supremely profound writers and thinkers. Its unique demonstration of Bloomian literary theory makes it come poignantly alive for both graduate students and college professors.
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D.H. Lawrence and Attachment
Though we all face a tug of war between dependency and autonomy
while growing up, British author D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
experienced the struggle with particular intensity. Later in life,
his acute observational skills, high emotional intelligence, and
expressive abilities would allow him to articulate this conflict in
his works as few other writers have. Applying concepts from
attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents
innovative readings of a broad swath of Lawrence's fiction. Ronald
Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence's work, deepening
our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new
significance to key thematic concerns like gender identification,
marriage, and class. Lawrence's too-close relationship with his own
mother, in particular, was the foundation for his lifelong interest
in attachment, as well as the impetus for his literary exploration
of the delicate balance between the desire for closeness and the
need for separation. While the theories of Margaret S. Mahler, D.W.
Winnicott, John Bowlby, and others were developed after Lawrence's
death, his writing about relationships - and how they are
influenced by early childhood experiences - bears a striking
resemblance to the concepts of attachment theory. The Lawrence who
emerges from D.H. Lawrence and Attachment is a
psychological writer of great power whose intuitive insights into
the vagaries of attachment resulted in rich, complex fiction.
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Circulating genius
This book focuses on the relationship between the personal lives of the writers John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and D.H. Lawrence and the works they produced. It develops a portrait of a circle of writers who significantly influenced the development of modernism in Britain.
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D. H. Lawrence
In recent decades, critical and theoretical debate in the field of culture and literature has called into question many literary categories, has re-discussed the literary canon, and has totally renovated critical approaches in the wake of major changes in western society such as the irruption of new cultural identities, the disruption of the well-established Euro-centric conception, and the need to establish new world visions.D. H. Lawrence has been a focus for critical debate since his early publications in the first decades of the 20th century. The force of his thought, his courageous challenge against the most important values of western industrial society, his rejection of England and its bourgeois values, his choice to live in exile, his never-ending quest for lost vital meanings, his open-mindedness in coming into contact with different worlds and cultures, and the revolutionary impact of his writing have all provided critics with important issues for discussion. Most of Lawrence's works are still being read and analysed through ever-new critical lenses and approaches. This volume brings together a selection of papers delivered at the 13th International D. H. Lawrence Conference, D. H. Lawrence: New Life, New Utterance, New Perspectives held in Gargnano in 2014, on Lake Garda: the place of Lawrence's first Italian sojourn, where he started a \"new life\" with Frieda and a new phase as a writer.The essays selected for Part I of this volume offer new readings of Lawrence's work and ideology through various theoretical and philosophical approaches, drawing comparisons with philosophers and thinkers such as Bataille, Darwin, Derrida, Heidegger, and Benjamin, among others. Part II focuses on translation, a concept which can be extended to cultural mediation, as it can be applied not only to the proper translation of texts from one language into
another, but also to travel writing and to transcodification, as is the case of film versions of Lawrence's novels.
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Sons and Lovers
Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's mother died, he broke for the final time with Jessie Chambers, the original of Miriam, had an affair with Alice Dax, the main model for Clara, had a year-long engagement to Louie Burrows, nearly died of pneumonia, gave up teaching, met Frieda Weekley who was to be his wife and life-companion, and lived abroad with her in Germany and Italy. When he began Sons and Lovers he was a schoolteacher in Croydon, South London. Writing after work in the evenings; when he completed it he was a full-time professional writer living with Frieda on the shores of Lake Garda. The writing of the novel and the life on which it was based were closely intertwined. Moreover, Frieda and Jessie crucially influenced the writing of the book. In Jessie's case she wrote sections of it herself as well as well as encouraging Lawrence to make it more directly autobiographical. In many ways the book is the result of dialogues with Jessie and Frieda. Jessie was devastated by the outcome, which she considered a slander and a betrayal. But Lawrence incorporated her answering voice, as well as Frieda’s, in the text. This book combines biography and textual scholarship to bring to life the dramatic story of the writing of Sons and Lovers.
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Lake Garda : gateway to D.H. Lawrence's Voyage to the sun
\"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move.\" This opening sentence of Sea and Sardinia (1921) is strikingly telling about D. H. Lawrence's life, which can be considered both literally and metaphorically as a journey to the sun. In this respect, as the title of our symposium - \"Lake Garda: Gateway to D. H. Lawrence's Voyage to the Sun\" - suggests, he began his life-long quest in Gargnano, in 1912. This eponymous book draws together the papers presented at the Gargnano Symposium in 2012 to commemorate the centenary of the writer's stay in that \"paradise\" (3 September 1912 - 11 April 1913).The focus of our event was on Lawrence's \"sun search\" and \"travelling\"; two thought-provoking, multifaceted topics for a sparkling critical debate, expanding outside \"canonic\" criticism into music and painting. This collection, in fact, comes with a CD featuring 12 songs; poems by Lawrence put to music for soprano and piano by the American composer William Neil. It also includes the reproduction of seven paintings from \"Via D. H. Lawrence\", out of a sequence of 25, in which the German painter Sabine Frank follows the writer's footsteps in the Garda area. The result is a unique and stimulating book, combining literature, music and painting. Thus, it provides an invaluable enrichment for all of us, meant to inspire intellectual confrontation and circulation of ideas in the domain of Laurentian studies. This is the sort of book that any Laurentian, reading either for academic purposes or pleasure, cannot possibly miss.
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