Kontrastowe ujęcie krytyki nowoczesności w późnych opowiadaniach Davida Herberta Lawrence’a
Contrasting Perspective of Modernity in David Herbert Lawrence’s Late Prose

Author(s): Magdalena Wylężek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: David Herbert Lawrence; Modernism; Primitivism; Short Stories
Summary/Abstract: The point of departure for the following article is the belief that Lawrence’s primitivism ( J. Kessler) is an important attempt to reply to the modernist crisis. In his late short stories terms such as spirituality, religion or ritual are playing a vital role in his reflection on modern society. To display his criticism Lawrence highlights the contrast between bourgeois class and free-thinking individuals. Terminology for this consideration is derivative from Mircea Eliade’s book The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. It is a basic to present Lawrence’s protagonists view on understanding time, space and significance of a ritual.

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