DH Lawrence critical quotes Flashcards

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Anne Fernihough

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Suggests DH Lawrence was not anti-modernist but enagagd in a ‘parallel project’

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Hugh Stevens - DH Lawrence and the war

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Lawrence blamed the war for the ‘the passing of an old organic England, which is supplanted by modernity’

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Morag Schiach

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Lawrence insists on ‘a version of selfhood that encompasses our physicality’

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What does DH Lawrence say about life as a whole?

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‘life seems to me barbarous, recklessly wasteful and destructive…but on the whole beautiful’

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What does DH Lawrnece say happened in 1915

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‘in 1915 the old world ended…became a vortex of broken passions’

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What does DH Lawrence say about trench warfare?

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‘trench and machine warfare…a blasphemy against life itself’

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What does Lawrence say about class?

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He ‘cannot transfer from my own class into the middle class…forfeit my affinity with my fellow-men and..the land’

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What does Lawrence say about tale vs artist

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‘never trust the artist. trust the tale’

Interpretation of reader important

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What does Lawrence call Freud?

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“the psychiatric quack”

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What does Lawrence stress ‘above everything’?

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‘individual liberty above everything’

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What does Lawrence stress that his aim was?

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‘To know the feelings inside a man, and to make new feelings conscious’

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What does Brook Miller say Lawrence strives to portray?

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‘The totality of consciousness’

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How does Mike Spilka suggest Lawrence works?

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By ‘revealing something about man’s inner life by showing him in direct relation with the life around him’
importance of interaction

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What does BJ Scherr suggest Lawrence engages in?

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‘total valorisation of the individual’

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