Sensitive Awareness and Spurious Feeling: Lawrence the Reviser and Lady Chatterley’s Lover

A strand in current postmodern criticism of Lawrence sees the search for coherent meaning in his work – especially his essays – as a dead end. Rather, such critics as Joan Peters say, we need to understand Lawrence rhetorically, and his writing – fiction and discursive prose -as engaging in postmod...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence,
Prif Awdur: Steven, Laurence
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: Études Lawrenciennes 2013
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Crynodeb:A strand in current postmodern criticism of Lawrence sees the search for coherent meaning in his work – especially his essays – as a dead end. Rather, such critics as Joan Peters say, we need to understand Lawrence rhetorically, and his writing – fiction and discursive prose -as engaging in postmodern performativity in response to situation. The catchword here is that Lawrence is a “provisional” writer. Paul Eggert, summing up this direction in criticism, says the central feature of Lawrence...