Promptings of desire : creativity and the religious impulse in the works of D.H. Lawrence
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Promptings of desire : creativity and the religious impulse in the works of D.H. Lawrence
(Contributions to the study of world literature, no. 49)
Greenwood Press, 1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table 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
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