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1 ‘The Work of Creation’: Lawrence and the Bible 1 2 Biblical intertextuality: Bakhtin, Bloom and Derrida 14 3 Higher criticism: Lawrence’s break with Christianity 21 4 Poetic fathers: Nietzsche and the Romantic tradition 36 5 Pre-war poetry and fiction: Adam and Eve come through 57 6 Re-marking Genesis:The Rainbowas counter-Bible 84
The Bible, as Wright's book demonstrates, plays a key role in nearly all D. H. Lawrence's work. It supplies not only the inspiration but on occasion the target for his parody. After considering the extraordinary range of Lawrence's reading, Wright engages in a theoretically informed but clear exploration of the textual dynamics of Lawrence's writing.
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Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. 'The Work of Creation': Lawrence and the Bible 2. Biblical intertextuality: Bakhtin, Bloom and Derrida 3. Higher criticism: Lawrence's break with Christianity 4. Poetic fathers: Nietzsche and the Romantic tradition 5. Pre-war poetry and fiction: Adam and Eve come through 6. Re-making Genesis: The Rainbow as counter-Bible 7. Double-reading the Bible: Esoteric ...
The Bible, as this book demonstrates, plays a key role in nearly all D. H. Lawrence's work. It supplies not only the inspiration but on occasion the target for his parody. In D. H. Lawrence and The Bible, Terry Wright establishes that Lawrence was familiar with the modernist critique of the Bible by higher critics and by anthropologists of religion.
3 In other words, what Lawrence denounced was the “nauseating fixity” of a religion based on a conception of God as the great Absolute, as an all-encompassing substance. And perhaps we should consider his broad textual corpus as his own struggle to define what religion was to him, “always […] undergoing modifications” and denying any ontological “fixity.”
- Mélanie Lebreton
- 2020
In his 2000 book DH Lawrence and the Bible, TR Wrightspeculates that one of the factors that has contributed to the decline in Lawrence’s standing is not just declining familiarity with the Bible that Wright demonstrates to permeate his works, but simply to a loss of ‘religious intensity’ (Wright, 250) – that baton having passed, apart from to the resurgent fundamentalism, to the new ...
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Additional Information. Purchase/rental options available: Buy Article for $32.50 (USD) In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: D. H. LAWRENCE'S BIBLICAL PLAY DAVID There is no break in the great adventure in consciousness. Throughout the howlingest deluge, some few brave souls are steering the ark under the rainbow.
