Hearing Voices
T.S. Eliot made a withering critique of the notion of the Inner Voice; so withering as to invite reflection on the positive meaning of this conception. Rather than the mere indulgence of subjectivity assumed by Eliot, in Lawrence it rather suggests the difficulty of attending to something outside th...
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence, |
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Études Lawrenciennes
2025
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | T.S. Eliot made a withering critique of the notion of the Inner Voice; so withering as to invite reflection on the positive meaning of this conception. Rather than the mere indulgence of subjectivity assumed by Eliot, in Lawrence it rather suggests the difficulty of attending to something outside the self. Among the most significant sounds for human beings are the voices of other human beings but in these, because they are largely encountered in the abstraction of linguistic utterance, otherness is often obscured by the illusion of understanding; or indeed the illusion of misunderstanding. Hence Lawrence’s focus on the voice as such rather than what is said. I look first at some instances of Lawrence characters hearing, or listening to, the voices of other characters and then consider cases of listening to less individual voices, voices that seem to represent the impersonal and the cosmic. This leads to some reflection on the significance of rhythm in human utterance and more generally. |
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