D. H. Lawrence

Auteur

The author, Michael A. Bell graduated from Hillcrest High School in Memphis, Tennessee. He immediately joined the military, and served four years in the U.S. Army. He is the oldest of four children by the late Dr. Jewell Bell Jr. and his mother died this year of 2021. Michael attended the Memphis School Of Preaching, where he and his wife Ruby studied the word of GOD. They both enjoy teaching children in Sunday school, and are involved in the ministry of visiting the sick, the elderly, and shut-in. Presently, they reside in Bartlett, Tennessee. Occasionally, Michael preaches the word of GOD whenever, and wherever the LORD leads.

Texte du rabat

D. H. Lawrence once wrote that "we have no language for the feelings". The remark testifies to the struggle in his novels to express his sophisticated understanding of the nature of being through the intransigent medium of language. Michael Bell argues that Lawrence's currently unfashionable status stems from a failure to perceive within his informal expression the nature and complexity of his ontological vision. He traces the evolution of the struggle for its articulation through the novels, and looks at the way in which Lawrence himself made it a conscious theme in his writing. Embracing in this argument Lawrence's failures as a writer, his rhetorical stridency and also his primitivist extremism, Michael Bell creates a powerful and fresh sense of his true importance as a novelist.

Résumé
Explores Lawrence's struggle in his novels to express his sophisticated understanding of the nature of being through the intransigent medium of language.

Contenu

1. Introduction; 2. Competing voices in the early novels; 3. The 'metaphysic' of The Rainbow; 4. The 'worlds' of Women in Love; 5. The personal, the political and the 'Primitive': Aaron's Rod and Kangaroo; 6. Sentimental primitivism in The Plumed Serpent 7. 'Love' and 'Chatter' in Lady Chatterley's Lover; 8. Conclusion.