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D.H. Lawrence: Desire and Narrative.

Publisher Modern Humanities Research Association
Publication The Modern Language Review
Subject Literature/writing
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0026-7937
Issues per Year 4
Volume 98
Issue 3
Published 2003-07-01

Role Type Name
Reviewee n/a Earl G. Ingersoll
Author n/a Margaret Storch

D. H. Lawrence: Desire and Narrative. By EARL G. INGERSOLL. Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2001. xi+197 pp. $55. ISBN 0-81301-850-1.

Lawrence has generally eluded postmodern criticism. In one of the few Lacanian studies, Earl Ingersoll gives a judicious reading of some of the major novels which opens up new strata in the works. Lacanian discourse is particularly fertile when applied to central Lawrentian topoi, such as parental power in Sons and Lovers or the nature of the phallus in Lady Chatterley's Lover. At times it seems that a new...

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