TY  - GEN
T1  - Defiant desire : some dialectical legacies of D.H. Lawrence
A1  - Widmer, Kingsley, 1925-2009
LA  - English
PP  - Carbondale, Ill.
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
YR  - 1992
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44959178
AB  - Kingsley Widmer, one of the more insightful and provocative learned critics, has had a considerable influence on D.H. Lawrence studies. Here he elaborates his crucial argument that the erotic conversion experience and its dialectic of social negation centrally define Lawrence and create his major legacies. In dialectically considering all of Lawrence's novels and many of his essays and stories, Widmer carries the issues beyond the texts to Lawrence's literary and ideological inheritors, including Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and a variety of others. In addition, he imbeds Lawrence's fictions and roles in the "dark prophecy" of affirmatively countering the Nietzschean tradition and, in a striking chapter on Lady Chatterley's Lover, explores the use of obscenity, sexual ideology, and anticlass utopianism. Finally, Widmer boldly ranges over Lawrence's blasphemous relation to censorship, to feminist/masculinist disputes, and to deconstructionist and certain sexual ideologies. This is Lawrence as a major dissident culture hero with a still pertinent, drastic revisionism of human responses in a nihilistic world. It is a large and controversial critical view.
OP  - 246
CN  - PR6023.A93 Z9542 1992eb
SN  - 0585210012
SN  - 9780585210018
SN  - 080931763X
SN  - 9780809317639
KW  - Lawrence, D. H. : (David Herbert), : 1885-1930 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, : 1844-1900 : Influence.
KW  - Lawrence, D. H. : (David Herbert), : 1885-1930
KW  - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, : 1844-1900
KW  - Lawrence, David H.
KW  - Negativity (Philosophy) in literature.
KW  - English fiction : German influences.
KW  - Negation (Logic) in literature.
KW  - Desire in literature.
KW  - Dialectic.
KW  - Négativité (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
KW  - Négation (Logique) dans la littérature.
KW  - Désir dans la littérature.
KW  - Dialectique.
KW  - dialectic.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Desire in literature
KW  - Dialectic
KW  - English fiction : German influences
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Negation (Logic) in literature
KW  - Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Sexualität
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Erotik : Motiv
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - USA
KW  - English.
KW  - Languages & Literatures.
KW  - English Literature.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -