Logic and Emotion in Lawrence’s Late Literary Criticism

“The Novel and the Feelings,” STH 205IWhat kind of a phrase is “the logic of emotion” and how should we understand both its constituent parts and it overall meaning? Its terms appear to be oxymoronic, deriving as they do from contrasting and potentially irreconcilable areas of human experience. In...

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In:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence,
Main Author: Preston, Peter
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Études Lawrenciennes 2014
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:“The Novel and the Feelings,” STH 205IWhat kind of a phrase is “the logic of emotion” and how should we understand both its constituent parts and it overall meaning? Its terms appear to be oxymoronic, deriving as they do from contrasting and potentially irreconcilable areas of human experience. In the most recent edition of the Chambers Dictionary, logic is defined as “the science and art of reasoning correctly” and “the science of the necessary laws of thought,” while among the definitions ...