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D. H. Lawrence's Final Fictions
A Lacanian Perspective
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2022
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D.H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks; more specifically, how the reading of fiction influences behavior. Lawrence writes passionately about our alienation from ourselves, from other people, and from the cosmos. He believes that we need to heed the voices of our unconscious, and he shows us how to meld body and mind so that, psychoanalytically speaking, Id and Ego can come together. In this endeavor there is a salient convergence between Lawrence's writings and those of Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst.
In this book, Stoltzfus examines the poetics of seven major fictions that Lawrence wrote between 1925 and 1930, five productive years that are referred to as his fabulation period. In each of the book's seven chapters, in tandem with Lacan's writings, Stoltzfus analyzes seven major characters, four of whom move from alienation to the renewal of self and the cosmos. He argues that Lawrence's fiction is simultaneously descriptive and prescriptive by showing us how to circumvent dysfunction. Stoltzfus brings literature and psychoanalysis together in readings that are both aesthetic and epistemological. They are recipes for curing the Anthropocene.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0367-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0368-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
170
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Additional Parenthetical References No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 28
“Sun” No access Pages 29 - 44
The Woman Who Rode Away No access Pages 45 - 62
“None of That” No access Pages 63 - 72
“The Rocking-Horse Winner” No access Pages 73 - 92
“The Man Who Loved Islands” No access Pages 93 - 104
