Voli Me Tangere: Touch and Tenderness in the Lady Chatterley Novels

Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)

Annabel Banks

关键词: D. H. Lawrence;    Modernism;    Touch;    Tenderness;   

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of Durham

【 摘 要 】

By 1914 Lawrence had set out his aim to find a new way of delineating character: ou mustn look in my novel for the old stable ego of the character. There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognisable? He believed he had identified a truth the nineteenth-century view of character had overlooked, which requireddeeper sense than any wee been used to exercise? This theory of lood consciousness?(which he later formulated into his concept of bodily cognition or iological psyche?in Fantasia and the Unconscious) informs his belief that modern man must transcend the split between the body and the mind, and live from both, wholly and ynamically? This article argues that in traversing the three versions of Lawrence last novel, Lady Chatterley Lover, a truer model of Lawrence doctrine of dynamic consciousness can be uncovered. Through each incarnation of Lady Chatterley Lover Lawrence purpose is refined; each character and their connections can be read in terms of touch and tenderness, living through the novel in order to reify Lawrence great lesson: that touch is an essential element of life.

【 授权许可】

CC BY