River of Dissolution: D. H. Lawrence and English RomanticismFirst published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the ambivalence of Lawrence’s attitude towards corruption. Clarke demonstrates that Lawrence’s attitude to ‘will’ and to sensational or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the same time this is a study of Lawrence’s debt as a novelist to the English Romantic poets. A tradition of metaphor is traced from the second half of the eighteenth century, through the poetry of the major Romantics to the Decadents, and so to Lawrence, whose attitudes to mechanism and corruption are shown to be articulated, above all, through ambivalent images of dissolution and disintegration. This title will be of interest to students of literature. |
Contents
Living disintegration | |
Intensificationinreduction | |
Dissolves diffuses dissipates | |
Flux and irony | |
The Activity of Departure | |
Reductive Energy in The Rainbow | |
The Rhetoric of Corruption | |
Individuality and Belonging | |
Savage Visionaries | |
The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterleys Lover | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
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River of Dissolution: D. H. Lawrence & English Romanticism Colin C. Clarke No preview available - 1969 |
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activity African ambiguous Anna attitude beauty Beldover Birkin blood body Brangwen Catherine Carswell chapter Coleridge COLIN CLARKE consciousness context corruption creation creative critical D. H. Lawrence Daleski darkness death decay decomposition degradation desire destruction disintegration dissolving ecstasy energy English Romantic entails episode essay fact fiction flow flux Gerald Gudrun hand Heart of Darkness Hermione human Ibid imagery images of dissolution imagination implied integrity isolation kind knowledge Kurtz Lady Chatterley’s Lover lapse Lawrence’s art living machine Magna Mater marsh mechanical melting metaphor mind mindless moon Moony mystery mystic natural Neil Myers notion novel organicist paradisal paradox passage passion perversity phosphorescence poem pure Rainbow reality reductive process relevant remarks rhythm river of dissolution Romantic poetry savage seems sensation sense sensual sexual significance Skrebensky snake soul spirit sublimation suggested theme things true Ursula vitality voluptuous whole Will’s Wilson Knight Women in Love Wordsworth