Promptings of Desire

Creativity and the Religious Impulse in the Works of D. H. Lawrence

AvPaul Poplawski

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

Through his art, D. H. Lawrence exhorted people to recognize their potential for creative change and to energize it toward a more fulfilling mode of existence. Author Paul Poplawski seeks to define Lawrence's concept of creativity and explores its use as a central structuring principle of his ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic thought. Viewed in relation to his basic religious beliefs, the concept of creativity provides us with an integrated perspective on his art. Poplawski considers biographical elements of Lawrence's religious formation and traces the path of transmittal of these ideas into the early fiction and particularly The Rainbow. He then continues to demonstrate how religious views and aesthetic theory coalesce in the later works. He also engages critical dialogue by investigating counter-creative trends of elitism and sexism in the corpus.

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Utgivningsdatum:1993-06-21
Mått:156 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:539 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313287893

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PAUL POPLAWSKI is Director of Studies at Vaughan College, University of Leicester. He has taught widely in 19th and 20th century literature and specializes in D. H. Lawrence, Modernism, and Jane Austen. He recently published a revised 3rd edition of Warren Robets' A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence (2001). He is also the author of D. H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion (Greenwood, 1996), and A Jane Austen Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1998), and editor of Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence (Greenwood, 2001).

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionThe Concept of Creativity: A Preliminary ViewThe Creative Unconscious: Self, Society and FreedomThe Art of CreativityCreative Evolution: The Early Formation of Lawrence's Religious ThoughtNature, Art and Belief in the Early NovelsThe Metaphysics of Creativity and The RainbowThe Rainbow II: Rhythms of the Unknown GodLawrence Against Himself: Elitism and the Mystification of SexConsolidation: 1915-1930ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex