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  title info:
    title: Defiant desire
    sub title: some dialectical legacies of D.H. Lawrence
  name:
    name part: Widmer, Kingsley
    name part: 1925-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Kingsley Widmer, one of the more insightful and provocative learned critics, has had a considerable influence on D.H. Lawrence studies. Here he elaborates his crucial argument that the erotic conversion experience and its dialectic of social negation centrally define Lawrence and create his major legacies. In dialectically considering all of Lawrence's novels and many of his essays and stories, Widmer carries the issues beyond the texts to Lawrence's literary and ideological inheritors, including Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and a variety of others. In addition, he imbeds Lawrence's fictions and roles in the "dark prophecy" of affirmatively countering the Nietzschean tradition and, in a striking chapter on Lady Chatterley's Lover, explores the use of obscenity, sexual ideology, and anticlass utopianism. Finally, Widmer boldly ranges over Lawrence's blasphemous relation to censorship, to feminist/masculinist disputes, and to deconstructionist and certain sexual ideologies. This is Lawrence as a major dissident culture hero with a still pertinent, drastic revisionism of human responses in a nihilistic world. It is a large and controversial critical view.
  table of contents: 1. Defiant Desire: Introduction, Examples, Adumbrations -- 2. Dark Prophecy of Negative Desire: Lawrence's Nietzschean Matrix -- 3. Problems of Desire in Lady Chatterley's Lover -- 4. Lawrence's Desiring and Negating American Progeny: Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Some Melvilleans -- 5. Desirable and Negative Legacy of Lawrence as Dissident Culture Hero.
  note: Kingsley Widmer.
  note: The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-238) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
      name part: 1885-1930
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
      name part: 1844-1900
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: German literature
    topic: Appreciation
    geographic: England
  subject:
    topic: Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    topic: German influences
  subject:
    topic: Negation (Logic) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Desire in literature
  subject:
    topic: Dialectic
  classification: PR6023.A93 Z9542 1992
  classification: 823/.912
  identifier: 080931763X
  identifier: 91028121
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 910717
    record change date: 20240821153032.6
    record identifier: in00001062302