“Must take the imaginative line”: Lawrence the Creative Historian
Time, for Lawrence, is conceived not as a linear but as a cyclical progression, moving forward in loops of destruction and rebirth, for destruction is a necessary step in creation and advancement. In The Rainbow, the destruction of the old farming generation, in the person of Tom Brangwen, drowned...
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Études Lawrenciennes
2017
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| Zusammenfassung: | Time, for Lawrence, is conceived not as a linear but as a cyclical progression, moving forward in loops of destruction and rebirth, for destruction is a necessary step in creation and advancement. In The Rainbow, the destruction of the old farming generation, in the person of Tom Brangwen, drowned in the flood in chapter nine – the very middle of the novel – finds an echo in the very last chapter, with Ursula’s new-found hope in the future of the world, symbolised by the rainbow – the creati... |
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