Oriental Lawrence : the quest for the secrets of sex / Gerald Doherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doherty, Gerald, 1929-

Series:

Studies in twentieth-century British literature ; v. 4.

Studies in twentieth-century British literature ; vol. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Sex--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Sex.

Buddhism in literature.

Yoga in literature.

Sex in literature.

Orient--In literature.

Orient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Oriental Lawrence: The Quest for the Secrets of Sex explores D.H. Lawrence's engagement with Eastern systems of thought, especially Buddhism and Yoga, which were his main sources of interest. It tracks their impact on his thinking and their influence on his fiction. Lawrence looked to the East less for social, political, or cultural resolutions to the chronic problems that beset the West, but to engage with limit-situations - moments of radical transformation when the self sheds its social accoutrements and discovers dynamic new ways of being-in-the-world. He sought those new levels of awareness, new modes of desire, new ways of transmuting the self, and new soteriological goals that the West seemed unable to offer.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Between East and West: Reinventing Buddhism

Ch. 2. Between East and West: Language and Silence

Ch. 3. Women in Love: Narrative and Sexuality

Ch. 4. St. Mawr: Theater and Jouissance

Ch. 5. Reinventing Yoga

Ch. 6. Women in Love: New Styles of Orgasm

Ch. 7. The Plumed Serpent: Transcending the Orgasm

Ch. 8. Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Return of the Orgasm.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-171) and index.

ISBN:

0-8204-5213-0

OCLC:

191935579