“The novel is […] so incapable of the absolute.” D. H. Lawrence’s Evolving Views on the Relative and the Absolute in the Novel
Early on in his 1925 essay “The Novel” Lawrence wrote: “The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.” (STH 179) That essay was one of a number of essays written in the 1920s about the function of the novel. This essay will exami...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Études Lawrenciennes
2020
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Early on in his 1925 essay “The Novel” Lawrence wrote: “The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.” (STH 179) That essay was one of a number of essays written in the 1920s about the function of the novel. This essay will examine Lawrence’s evolving views about the relative and the absolute in the novel, culminating with an essay little discussed in this context, “A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”A good number of stu... |
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