The Spirit of D. H. Lawrence
Author : Gamini Salgado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349065102
Author : Gamini Salgado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349065102
Author : D.H. Lawrence
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1681373645
You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence’s published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer’s selection of Lawrence’s essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.
Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1466869860
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer.
Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809315994
In the Preface to this second edition of her first book, Sandra M. Gilbert addresses the inevitable question: "How can you be a feminist and a Lawrentian?" The answer is intellectually satisfying and historically revealing as she traces an array of early twentieth-century women of letters, some of them proto-feminists, who revered Lawrence despite his countless statements that would today be condemned as "sexist." H.D. regarded him as one of her "initiators" whose words "flamed alive, blue serpents on the page." Anais Nin insisted that he "had a complete realization of the feelings of women." By focusing on Lawrence’s own definition of a poem as an "act of attention," Gilbert demonstrates how he developed the mature style of Birds, Beasts and Flowers, his finest collection of poetry. She discusses this volume at length, examines many of his later poems in detail, including the hymns from The Plumed Serpent, Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies, and ends with a close look at Last Poems. Her detailed examination provides a clearer image of Lawrence as an artist—an artist whose poetry complements his novels and whose fiction enriches but does not outshine his poetry.
Author : Frances Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1526644703
'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you ... she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written with a wild, playful energy' Richard Holmes D H Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial – and we are still unsure what the verdict should be, or even how to describe him. History has remembered him, and not always flatteringly, as a nostalgic modernist, a sexually liberator, a misogynist, a critic of genius, and a sceptic who told us not to look in his novels for 'the old stable ego', yet pioneered the genre we now celebrate as auto-fiction. But where is the real Lawrence in all of this, and how – one hundred years after the publication of Women in Love - can we hear his voice above the noise? Delving into the memoirs of those who both loved and hated him most, Burning Man follows Lawrence from the peninsular underworld of Cornwall in 1915 to post-war Italy to the mountains of New Mexico, and traces the author's footsteps through the pages of his lesser known work. Wilson's triptych of biographical tales present a complex, courageous and often comic fugitive, careering around a world in the grip of apocalypse, in search of utopia; and, in bringing the true Lawrence into sharp focus, shows how he speaks to us now more than ever. 'No biography of Lawrence that I have read comes close to Burning Man' Ferdinand Mount, author of Kiss Myself Goodbye 'The most original voice in life-writing today' Lucasta Miller, author of Keats
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521550161
Landmark volume of D. H. Lawrence's writings on American literature including major essays on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman.
Author : Edward Henning Nehls
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 1953
Category :
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Author : Eunyoung Oh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415976448
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Emily H. Sell
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781570620768
This collection of reflections by spiritual teachers, psychologists, and writers reveals the deeper dimension of loving. Contributors include D.H. Lawrence, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Martin Buber, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Virgil, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, James Joyce, and many others.
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0143123971
A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book Award–winning bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick brings a sailor’s eye and an adventurer’s passion to unfolding the story behind an epic American journey. He skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious enthusiasm…”—New York Times Book Review