{"title":"D. H. Lawrence and the Medusa: The Bible, Mythology, and Quarrelling Couples in the Leadership novels","authors":"S. Bricout","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.446","url":null,"abstract":"The feminist quarrel with Lawrence over his alleged promotion of masculine supremacy has been disputed in many ways. Kate Millett actively seeks out hidden motives to explain why focalization happens to bear on female characters, when she writes, “It’s through a feminine consciousness that his masculine message is conveyed” (239). She quotes Simone de Beauvoir, who regarded Lawrence’s writings as counselling manuals for women (Millett 239). Closer to Anais Nin’s view that Lawrence’s “intuitiv...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70313172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Theory” of the Marchese in Aaron's Rod, XVII, a Proof of Lawrence's Misogyny?","authors":"Benjamin Bouche","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.401","url":null,"abstract":"The brief chapter XVII of Aaron's Rod contains some of the speculative reflections that serve as a basis for the great final discussion of chapter XXI, which describes and legitimizes a singular mode of domination (\"the deep, fathomless submission to the heroic soul in a greater man”). To begin, we shall briefly recall the context of the discussion: Aaron, Lilly and Argyle are on a terrace overlooking the city of Florence, presented as a model of human historical, spiritual and sensual achiev...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70313361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lawrence and Feminism","authors":"Sanatan Bhowal","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.418","url":null,"abstract":"A Lawrencian emphasis on the man-woman relationship and his “priest of love” image, built on the primacy of this relationship as argued by Mark Spilka (1955), caused Lawrence to come under the critical scrutiny of second-wave feminists in the late sixties and the early seventies of the last century. With the onset of the third-wave feminism, Lawrence’s assumptions were put to fresh scrutiny in terms of the now foregrounded issues of sexual difference, gender, the body, “ecriture feminine” and...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49577349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"D.H. Lawrence’s Female Correspondents: a First Study of His Correspondence with Them","authors":"J. Long","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.335","url":null,"abstract":"The Cambridge University Press published Lawrence’s surviving correspondence in full between 1979 and 2001. This has been supplemented by the publication in the Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies of further letters, as they come to light. Such a commitment to publication reflects Lawrence’s reputation as a highly skilled letter-writer. Such is the extent of the correspondence, particularly full in his latter years, that it is an invaluable tool in understanding his life and works. Indeed no bio...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70312803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The great relationship, for humanity, will always be the relation between man and woman”1: Evolutionary Considerations of D. H. Lawrence.2”","authors":"J. M. Phelps","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.317","url":null,"abstract":"In the opening paragraph of “First Glimmerings of Mind,” Chapter VI of Fantasia of the Unconscious, Lawrence writes: “The final aim is not to know, but to be. There never was a more risky motto than that: Know thyself. You’ve got to know yourself as far as possible. But not just for the sake of knowing. You’ve got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. ‘Be Yourself’ is the last motto” (FU 105). This is surely one of the pithiest summations of Lawrence’s “philosophy” as one coul...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48274745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mourning Becomes Lawrence: Giving Sorrow Words in “Odour of Chrysanthemums” and the Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd","authors":"Nora Foster Stovel","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.453","url":null,"abstract":"Lawrence portrays widows mourning husbands in two early works—his story \"Odour of Chrysanthemums\" and his play The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Both works center on a marital conflict that can end only with the death of one of the partners. In The Work of Mourning (2001), Jacques Derrida writes, “One should not develop a taste for mourning, and yet mourn we must” (95). Lawrence did develop a taste for mourning, as his growing recognition of “the dignity of death” in these moving texts reveals. ...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":"234 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70313249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vive la différence: A Note on Sexuality, Gender and Difference in Lawrence","authors":"Michael E. Bell","doi":"10.4000/lawrence.327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/lawrence.327","url":null,"abstract":"In his own time Lawrence was seen by both admirers and detractors as centrally concerned with sexuality. By the end of the century, however, after the so-called sexual liberation which has so often laid at his door, his treatment of this theme, and especially his supposed views and recommendations on sexual relations, had come to seem historical, if not outdated, to many observers. At the same time, other concerns of Lawrence, which had earlier seemed idiosyncratic, have come to seem timely. ...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47670010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cocksure and Hensure Women in Women in Love","authors":"Marina S. Ragachewskaya","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.410","url":null,"abstract":"With the two kinds of femininity go two kinds of confidence: there are the women who are cocksure, and the women who are hensure.D. H. Lawrence. “Cocksure Women and Hensure Men” (written in 1928) These quotes draw a connecting line between Lawrence’s curious, if not controversial, theories on women as they appear in his later articles, published as the collection of Assorted Articles (1930), and his possible earlier “drafts” for these clear-cut categories of women. In spite of an incredibly r...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49025432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women in love in The Rainbow. The Experience of love, Sex and Marriage of Lydia and Anna Brangwen","authors":"J. Gouirand","doi":"10.4000/lawrence.435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/lawrence.435","url":null,"abstract":"After successive drafts bearing the marks of his reworking of the short stories, of his reading of Thomas Hardy and of his new life with Frieda, Lawrence pursued his speleology of the human psyche, using what he called “the exhaustive method” (L ll 143) through the various stages of his composition of the novel in “The Sisters,” then in “The Wedding Ring.” His relation with Frieda was at the core of his enterprise: “to depict Frieda’s God Almightiness in all its glory. That was the first crud...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70313430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De-gendering the “grannies.”","authors":"Elise Brault-Dreux","doi":"10.4000/LAWRENCE.374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/LAWRENCE.374","url":null,"abstract":"On August 2nd 1929, Lawrence writes to Orioli about his own mother-in-law: “Truly old and elderly women are ghastly, ghastly, eating up all life with hoggish greed, to keep themselves alive” (Letters VII 399). This is unquestionably a reaction to the behaviour of Frieda’s mother at a particular moment and therefore cannot be taken as Lawrence’s general idea about elder women – and such a general idea does not seem to exist anyway in his writing. But starting from this typically Lawrencian dec...","PeriodicalId":31837,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Lawrenciennes","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70312759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}