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wHis main concerns the new man, the new woman, capable of rising like a Phoenix from the ashes of the dead self.” (P.J„Shepherd)
Chapter I INTRODUCTION A, A, Victorian moralist or a case of sex in the head Forty-five years after his death* D.H.Lawrence continues to exert a remarkable influencee He seems to speak to the modern reader with the same forcefulness and freshness that impressed, and sometimes shocked, his contemporaries, - The first fact to begin with is that it is impossible to separate Lawrence the man from Lawrence the writer* This iss at least in Lawrence's case, the starting point of his lifelong dualities or "double measures'1. In Lawrencefs writings there is a constant rhythm of powerful forces pulling against each other! a contradiction between the man and the writer; an attraction or a repulsion between man and woman; a struggle between life and death forces, but most of all, a forked vision of human relationships towards both the darkness and the lightness. One way to understand the quality of Lawrence’s striking achievements is simply to accept the assertion of F.R. Leavis (now recognized as authoritative), who says that Lawrence is f,a creative writer of genius”.(FRL 17)* He devoted himself entirely to liter * Quotations in this work are indicated by a three-letter abbreviation followed by page numbers® Check work and author in the list of abbreviations at the beginning.
Page 1 and 2: Mo ï»e THESIS D. H0 IAWBENGE: SEX
Page 3 and 4: Esta Tese foi julgada adequada para
Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Mbs
Page 7 and 8: vil PGB - Portrait of a Genius« Bu
Page 9: R E S U M O D« H. Lawrence fez do
Page 13 and 14: 3 misunderstood sexual theme, is go
Page 15 and 16: 5 identical reasoning: nThere can s
Page 17 and 18: 7 attitudes. In this respect, it is
Page 19 and 20: 9 rence ’s works in his book The
Page 21 and 22: Chapter II PURITANISM DEFINED Histo
Page 23 and 24: 33 The actual meaning we find in di
Page 25 and 26: 15 and lie alone right. Having run
Page 27 and 28: 17 presents the Freudian imbroglio
Page 29 and 30: 19 it is perhaps worth noticing tha
Page 31 and 32: 21 but in many other parts of the b
Page 33 and 34: or inhibited action we are tempted
Page 35 and 36: 25 And about Cyril (himself) he sai
Page 37 and 38: 27 The tall meadow-sweet was in bud
Page 39 and 40: 29 genitals. Certainly Lawrence's p
Page 41 and 42: 31 Of course, one can imagine how i
Page 43 and 44: 33 'Good Lord, Emily! But he is dea
Page 45 and 46: 35 cock just quoted in the two prev
Page 47 and 48: 37 frustrated: Mr, and Mrs. Beardsa
Page 49 and 50: 39 So far, Lawrence’s early views
Page 51 and 52: hi rainbow arch; it is the “toget
Page 53 and 54: ^3 Lawrence said in his defence: "T
Page 55 and 56: ubbing passage of The White Peacock
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51 sions then is Freud’s theory o
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53 male, in a negative or sundering
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55 he directly faced the censors an
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57 "the whole question of pornograp
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59 Girordias, (11) famous editor an
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61 secret".; Neither can be of any
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63 by January 1928 and is now widel
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65 So the general subject matter of
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67 The real theme, which recurs in
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69 built of rusticated sandstone an
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71 who want to dominate them, Mello
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73 question Lawrence puts to himsel
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75 the mechanical images are deflec
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77 lies, navels, and breasts* (It h
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79 Maybe they are the truth some cr
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81 heave her loins, and throw the m
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83 ’'darkness” is present in M
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85 11ty shook her to her foundation
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87 some kind of ’'arrest'** In al
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Chapter ¥11 CONCLUSIONS Host of th
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91 in a passionate love affair and
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93 distinguished from normal conduc
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95 presentative of most people's ex
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97 easy to say* I think that he has
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APPENDIX NOTES 1 Title of the work
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BIBLIOGRAPHY •* Aldington^ Richar
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103 Lawrence, D«E., (cont.) -"SunJ
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