No Dancing Matter: The Language of Dance and Sublimation in D.H. Lawrence
What can I do but dance aloneDance to the sliding sea and the moon…?“Tarantella” (Works 95)The rhetorical question from Lawrence’s poem “Tarantella” is somewhat ominous, asserting as it does the strange isolation of the dancing persona or the voiced spirit of dance itself. The mystery of dance alwa...
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| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Études Lawrenciennes
2014
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | What can I do but dance aloneDance to the sliding sea and the moon…?“Tarantella” (Works 95)The rhetorical question from Lawrence’s poem “Tarantella” is somewhat ominous, asserting as it does the strange isolation of the dancing persona or the voiced spirit of dance itself. The mystery of dance always seemed to fascinate Lawrence, whose attitude to it was somewhat ambiguous. For Lawrence, dance was an issue of psychic importance, one which he addressed throughout his work.The motif of dance i... |
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