The rhetoric of the unselfconscious in D.H. Lawrence : verbalising the non-verbal in the Lady Chatterley novels / Masami Nakabayashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakabayashi, Masami.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Lady Chatterley's lover.

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.

Narration (Rhetoric).

History.

Erotic stories, English--History and criticism.

Erotic stories, English.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 237 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2011.

Summary:

In this study of the Lady Chatterley novels, Masami Nakabayashi pays particular attention to D.H. Lawrence's language for the feelings and for the life of the unselfconscious, sexual body. The novels constantly find ways of verbalising the characters' internalised experiences as they occur in states of unselfconsciousness. Lawrence's language for sensual feelings and emotions has always been regarded as simply 'sexual' and no previous critics have explored or made sense of the complexities of his peculiar, but extremely sophisticated, writing practice in the Lady Chatterley novels. Lawrence was a habitual reviser of his work, and, despite the availability of reliable texts in the Cambridge edition, few critics have traced the nature and significance of his changes from one draft to the next. By examining and analysing the novels' particular linguistic revisions, Masami Nakabayashi reveals the textual impulse behind Lawrence's original conception and its subsequent change and development. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Problems with Lady Chatterley's Lover 13

My Sense of a Problem with Lady Chatterley's Lover 13

Lady Chatterley's Lover and Two of Lawrence's Contemporary Reviewers 15

Lady Chatterley's Lover in the Era of F. R. Leavis 16

Lady Chatterley's Lover and Feminist Literary Criticism 21

Gendered Language in Criticism of Lady Chatterley's Lover 25

Considering Lawrence's Narrative Techniques 35

2 Version 1: Narrating Unselfconscious Sensual Experience 61

Version 1 of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Its 'Animal' Part 61

Version 1's Peculiarity 62

Version 1's Awareness of the Body 63

Connie and Parkin's First Meeting 64

The "Washing Scene": Beauty and Realisation 67

Version 1's Linguistic Experiment with the Ultimate Bodily Experience 74

Examining the Unselfconscious Narration of Sensual Experience 88

The Penis and the Phallos in the Unselfconscious Narration; Felt or Asserted? 91

3 Version 2: Experimenting with a Sexual Vocabulary 101

Lawrence Rewrites Version 1 of Lady Chatterley's Lover 101

Version 2's Experiments 103

Connie and Parkin's First Meeting 104

The "Washing Scene" 109

Version 2's Linguistic Treatment of Sex and Orgasm 116

Thinking the Penis in Version 2 133

The Phallus Replaces the Penis? 135

4 Version 3: Addressing a Readership 147

Lawrence Writes Version 3 of Lady Chatterley's Lover 147

Lady Chatterley's Lover: a Novel of Sexual Implicitness 150

Connie and Mellors' First Meeting 151

The "Washing Scene" 154

Version 3's Linguistic Treatment of the Ultimate Bodily Experience 164

"Other Fish to Fry" in Version 3 181

Gaps and Inconsistencies 182

"Real Sex" and Connie's Awareness of the Phallos 185

The "Night of Sensual Passion" 187

The Final Love-Making 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780761855330

0761855335

OCLC:

742512197