D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix: Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence - Couverture rigide

Balbert, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1443893056 ISBN 13 : 9781443893053

Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

This innovative study of eight major works of fiction by D. H. Lawrence examines the dominant presence of what is here termed a “marriage matrix.” It reveals how this intense pattern of preoccupation not only structures the symbology and plot development of these powerful stories, but also consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, renewal, transcendence, and impotence. As a compelling interpretation of Lawrence’s craft and a provocative foray into the intimations of psychobiography, the book’s notions of “synergistic criticism” integrate various approaches to this modernist writer to reveal provocative linkages between his visionary art and turbulent career and marriage. The volume contains well-grounded speculations on the sexual life of Lawrence and Frieda, on the oedipal residue of Lawrence’s relation to his parents, on the complex friendships with Cynthia Asquith, J. Middleton Murry, and Katherine Mansfield, and on the theories of James Frazer, Sigmund and Anna Freud, James W. Pryse, Peter Ouspensky, and Norman Mailer. The Marriage Matrix also reproduces six paintings by Lawrence and one by Georgia O’Keeffe within pertinent discussions of Lawrence’s practice and theory of visual art and how they further enhance the priorities of his fiction. To further contextualize the book’s eclectic approach to impinging issues about the current province of research, teaching, and literature, the texts of two of the author’s controversial presentations to the academy are also included, as well as relevant correspondence with the late writer, Norman Mailer, on the subject of Lawrence’s genius and influence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Balbert received his PhD from Cornell University, and is Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where he served for sixteen years as Department Chair. He is the author of D. H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination and D. H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm, and the co-editor of D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration. He has published more than fifty articles on modern and contemporary fiction and on university administration, and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as Associate Editor of Planning for Higher Education, as a Contributing Editor of Academic Leader, and as a consultant for the National Institute for Research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443893056
• ISBN 13: 9781443893053
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 357
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible