Textual Tectonics in “The Man Who Died” by D. H. Lawrence
This article studies how D. H. Lawrence’s rewriting of the story of Christ’s resurrection operates along the textual fault-lines between the Bible and the novella “The Man Who Died” (1929), also known as “The Escaped Cock.” While Lawrence’s narrative breaks away from the conventional creed of Christ...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2024
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | This article studies how D. H. Lawrence’s rewriting of the story of Christ’s resurrection operates along the textual fault-lines between the Bible and the novella “The Man Who Died” (1929), also known as “The Escaped Cock.” While Lawrence’s narrative breaks away from the conventional creed of Christ’s redemption of the Original Sin, the materiality of geological features described throughout “The Man Who Died,” foregrounds the corporeality of the resurrection to the flesh that Lawrence explores in his works. Tectonic theory provides an appropriate critical trope to examine textual and linguistic tensions, all the more so as geological phenomena such as earthquakes also feature at key moments in the Bible. |
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