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From: Modernism/Modernity[(essay date November 2004) In this essay, which centers on D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, Wyndham Lewis's Apes of God, and Saki's "The Unrest-Cure," Lane asserts that these works of fiction show "how, during wartime,...
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From: in The Saturday Review[In the following excerpt the reviewer praises the emotional power of Lawrence's prose in Sons and Lovers, but also points to Lawrence's occasional inability to distance himself from the passions of his characters.]....
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is the coordinator of the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses various aspects of “The Rocking-Horse Winner.”] “The Rocking-Horse...
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From: New Statesman[West is considered one of the foremost English novelists and critics of the twentieth century. Her literary criticism is noted for its wit, perceptiveness, and aversion to cant. She has commented: “I dislike heartily...
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From: Language as Gesture: Essays in Poetry[(essay date 1935) In the following essay, Blackmur argues that Lawrence's poetry is too often marred by the author's unchecked inclusion of biographical detail and personal feelings.] As a poet, and only to a less...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)D. H. Lawrence's background, which was an important influence on his work, is best described in his own essay ``Nottingham and the Mining Countryside.'' Life in late 19th-century Eastwood, he says, ``was a curious cross...
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From: Class, Politics, and the Individual: A Study of the Major Works of D. H. Lawrence[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Scheckner discusses Lawrence's plays that concern the effects of coal mining on families and individuals, relating the plays to the author's novels that also focus on class...
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From: College LiteratureThere are two traditional approaches to Sons and Lovers, one of which treats the novel as a psychological study, emphasizing particularly Paul's Oedipal complex; the second of which focuses on the autobiographical,...
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From: The New Mexico Quarterly Review[(essay date 1948) In the following essay, Glicksberg examines Lawrence's poetry to support his thesis that Lawrence was engaged in creating his own religion that eschewed science and materialism.] There is no...
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From: The New York Times Book ReviewThere is probably no phrase much more hackneyed than that of “human document,” yet it is the only one which at all describes this very unusual book [Sons and Lovers]. It is hardly a story; rather the first part of a...
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From:Novels for Students (Vol. 18. )Sons and Lovers is an example of a Bildungsroman, an autobiographical novel about the early years of a character's life, and that character's emotional and spiritual development. The term derives from German novels of...
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From: The Psychoanalytic Review[In the following excerpt, Kuttner applies Freud's psycho-sexual theory of the Oedipal complex to Paul Morel's development in Sons and Lovers. Kuttner notes that Paul's relationship with his mother keeps him from...
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From:Short Stories for StudentsEarly criticism of Lawrence's work focused on what was considered to be his sex-obsession. His novels, stories, poems, and paintings were all subjected to various degrees of censorship. While his novels have attracted...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)D.H. Lawrence's first and most conventional novel, Sons and Lovers, is already the work of an accomplished writer. Grounded in the novelist's autobiography, it is in the fullest sense a sentimental education. Unlike his...
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From: D. H. Lawrence: The Early FictionThe two great masterpieces among the stories begun in the period 1909–11 are “Daughters of the Vicar” and “Odour of Chrysanthemums”. Neither reached its present version easily; it was in drastic revision in the period...
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From: D.H. Lawrence: Selected Poems[(essay date 1947) In the following introduction to Lawrence's Selected Poems, Rexroth believes that, rather than being a major poet like Thomas Hardy, Lawrence was a minor prophet like William Blake and William Butler...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDespite its status as a novel of formation or Bildungsroman, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers minimizes the role of schooling and educational institutions in the shaping of young minds. Whereas varieties of the genre,...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis special guest-edited issue of the D.H. Lawrence Review brings together papers that were delivered on 24 September 2013 at a day-long conference marking the centenary of the publication of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMrs. Morel's use of the word 'nesh' in her conversation with her husband in D.H. Lawrence's novel 'Sons and Lovers' concealed a sarcasm which could only be uncovered if the precise meaning of the word is understood. As...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedInstead of seeing Sons and Lovers as falling away in quality in its final two-thirds, or as straightforwardly working out the novel's initial themes, I argue that it creates a space to explore the impact on subjectivity...