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

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
The Concept of Creativity: A Preliminary View
The Creative Unconscious: Self, Society and Freedom
The Art of Creativity
Creative Evolution: The Early Formation of Lawrence's Religious Thought
Nature, Art and Belief in the Early Novels
The Metaphysics of Creativity and The Rainbow
The Rainbow II: Rhythms of the Unknown God
Lawrence Against Himself: Elitism and the Mystification of Sex
Consolidation: 1915-1930
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Paul Poplawski, Poplawski Paul
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.1993
• EAN: 9780313287893
• ISBN: 978-0-313-28789-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 539 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, The Arts: World Literature