The Oedipus Complex in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

The Oedipus Complex in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

Author: Louise Hathaway

Publisher: Lewis Hathaway`

Published:

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1311274057

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I've been a big fan of D. H. Lawrence since my first year of college. I loved his novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Women in Love, and The Rainbow. The novel that I couldn't quite get my arms around was Sons and Lovers, the strange story about a mother who smothered her son with her possessive love and treated him like a substitute for her abusive husband. When I was reading it, I kept thinking, “Is it just me, or does this really seem like The Oedipus Complex going on in this relationship?” I wanted to see what the critics said, and what Lawrence himself thought. Were his parents like the ones depicted in Sons and Lovers? That is what this critical essay is all about. At the end of the essay, I've included some of my photos of Lawrence’s house in Eastwood, England where he was born and in New Mexico where his ashes are interred. The painting on the book cover is by Dominique Van Rentergem.


The Fox

The Fox

Author: David Herbert Lawrence

Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

Published: 2021-09-27

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 3986474870

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The Fox David Herbert Lawrence - Relationship between Ellen and Jill, the lesbian partners, complicates after Paul, a young man, enters their lives. His attraction towards Ellen arouses jealousy in Jill.


Paul Morel

Paul Morel

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107457492

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This early version of Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's highly popular autobiographical novel, has never been published before. It is less polished than the finished novel but has different dramatic power. The volume also contains remarkable documents written by Jessie Chambers (Lawrence's girlfriend) in which she presents Lawrence with very hostile criticism and writes her own versions of some of his episodes. In addition, it features a fragment of a novel about his mother's childhood, facsimiles of manuscript pages, maps, and full scholarly notes.


A Preface to Lawrence

A Preface to Lawrence

Author: Gamini Salgado

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 131787434X

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'Longman Preface books are intended to give "modern and authoritative guidance" on the lives and works of the major writers ... Gamini Salgado's A Preface to Lawrence does just that.' Times Educational Supplement D. H. Lawrence, criticised, censored and dismissed in his lifetime, now stands as one of the major imaginative novelists of the early twentieth-century. Clear, vivid and convincing, Gamini Salgado's introduction to the life and works of D H Lawrence, sets the writer firmly in the context of his times and: * outlines his life and intellectual background, and their effect on his writing * looks in detail at many of Lawrence's works, including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, his shorter fiction, poetry and plays * examines Lawrence as a literary critic * covers important people and places in Lawrence's life and their effect on him Gamini Salgado was formerly Professor of English at Exeter University. His works include a book on Sons and Lovers (Arnold), an anthology of critisism of it (Macmillan) and a number of studies of drama and prose literature.


D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780812035407

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Torn between his passion for two women and his abiding attachment to his mother, young Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone--particularly himself. Lawrence's highly autobiographical novel unfolds against the backdrop of his native Nottinghamshire coal fields, amidst a working-class family dominated by a brutish father and a loving but overbearing mother. Lushly descriptive passages range from celebrations of natural beauty and sensual pleasures to searing indictments of the social blight engendered by industrialism. Essential reading for any study of twentieth-century literature. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1913 edition. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


Radicalizing Lawrence

Radicalizing Lawrence

Author: Robert Burden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9004487018

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In this study of D.H.Lawrence and critical theory, Robert Burden pays particular attention to the critical formations that underpin the reception history of the main novels, including the much maligned “leadership” novels, because strong readings have always contested the meaning and significance of Lawrence, and because there has been a persistent reluctance to approach his writing through post-structuralist theory. This study demonstrates in some detail that once Lawrence’s texts are the objects of the newer critical paradigms, their principles of coherence are understood differently; and that older notions of textual unity are displaced by aesthetic structures of degrees of generic and linguistic destabilization. This enables a radicalizing of Lawrence’s fiction by drawing out its deconstructive effects on his myth-making and essentialist notions of the self. The sexual identities represented in the fiction are read as experiments, or “thought adventures”, as Lawrence himself characterized his work. The different approaches to Lawrence’s writing in this study lead to a radical reassessment of his relationship to Modernism, especially in the light of the more elastic concept of Modernism in recent discussion, and one which traditional Lawrence scholars have ignored. What emerges is a more self-deconstructive Lawrence, with some surprising results.