Lawrence and Comedy

Klappentext This 1996 book revises the accepted notion of Lawrence as a humourless writer to reveal a genuine comic talent. Zusammenfassung This 1996 collection of essays by distinguished scholars explores the range! scope and sheer verve of Lawrence's comic writing. Through comedy! Lawrence created an alternative cultural and social space! a means of imaginatively distancing himself from the surrounding orthodoxy. This book reveals the hidden Lawrence! the writer who deployed and enjoyed a genuine comic talent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction Paul Eggert; 1. Drama and mimicry in Lawrence John Worthen; 2. Mischief or merriment, amazement and amusement - and malice: Women in Love Howard Mills; 3. Comedy and hysteria in Aaron's Rod John Turner; 4. D. H. Lawrence and his 'gentle reader': the furious comedy of Mr. Noon Lydia Blanchard; 5. 'Homunculus stirs': masculinity and the mock-heroic in Birds, Beasts and Flowers Holly Laird; 6. Comedy and provisionality: Lawrence's address to his audience and material in his Australian novels Paul Eggert; 7. Lawrence's satiric style: language and voice in St. Mawr Paul Poplawski; 8. Humour in the letters of D. H. Lawrence Mark Kinkead-Weekes; 9. Lawrence to Larkin: a changed perspective John Bayley; Notes on contributors; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Eggert, Paul (University College Eggert, Paul Worthen Eggert
• Assisted by: Paul Eggert (Editor), Eggert Paul (Editor), John Worthen (Editor), Worthen John (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521118699
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11869-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000