This second volume of Michael Black's commentary on Lawrence's prose works concentrates on the extraordinary sequence of nonfiction texts written between 1913 and 1917: The "Foreword" to Sons and Lovers, Study of Thomas Hardy, Twilight in Italy, "The Crown," "The Reality of Peace." In all of them Lawrence was compulsively rewriting what he called "my philosophy." They are difficult works: highly metaphorical, in places prophetically expressionist, even surreal. This extended commentary makes sense of them, treating them as ...
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This second volume of Michael Black's commentary on Lawrence's prose works concentrates on the extraordinary sequence of nonfiction texts written between 1913 and 1917: The "Foreword" to Sons and Lovers, Study of Thomas Hardy, Twilight in Italy, "The Crown," "The Reality of Peace." In all of them Lawrence was compulsively rewriting what he called "my philosophy." They are difficult works: highly metaphorical, in places prophetically expressionist, even surreal. This extended commentary makes sense of them, treating them as a succession of experimental writings that support each other, develop non-discursive modes of writing, and are linked by shared metaphors that reveal shared preoccupations. Black's highly useful analysis is like the close reading of poetry.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in very good jacket. Publisher's dark blue cloth boards in dust jacket, very good, lightest rubbing to extremities, jacket with faint wear. 476 pp. Commentary on prose works, mainly literary criticism of Hardy and others, that Lawrence wrote between 1913 and 1917.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; Presumed first ed., 1993; 475 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper mildly age-toned--more so on end pages; binding tight; boards and glossy photographic d.j. have minimal wear.
