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Kingsley Widmer, one of the most insightful and provocative learned critics, has long had a considerable influence on D. H. Lawrence studies. Here he elaborates the crucial argument that the erotic conversion experience and its dialectic of social negation centrally define Lawrence, thus creating his major legacies.In dialectically considering all of Lawrences novels and many of his essays and stories, Widmer carries the issues beyond the texts to Lawrences literary and ideological inheritors, including Henry Miller and Norman Mailer. In addition, he imbeds Lawrences fictions and roles in the dark prophecy of affirmatively countering the Nietzschean tradition and, in a striking chapter on Lady Chatterleys Lover explores the use of obscenity, sexual ideology, and anticlass utopianism. This is Lawrence as a major dissident culture hero with a still pertinent, drastic revisionism of human responses in a nihilistic world. It is a large and controversial critical view.

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title:Defiant Desire : Some Dialectical Legacies of D.H. Lawrence
author:Widmer, Kingsley.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:080931763X
print isbn13:9780809317639
ebook isbn13:9780585210018
language:English
subjectLawrence, D. H.--(David Herbert),--1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Influence, Negativity (Philosophy) in literature, English fiction--German influences, Negation (Logic) in literature, Desire in literatur
publication date:1992
lcc:PR6023.A93Z9542 1992eb
ddc:823/.912
subject:Lawrence, D. H.--(David Herbert),--1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Influence, Negativity (Philosophy) in literature, English fiction--German influences, Negation (Logic) in literature, Desire in literatur
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Other Books of Literary and Cultural Criticism by Kingsley Widmer:
The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions (1962)
Henry Miller (1963; rev. ed., 1990)
The Literary Rebel (1965)
The Ways of Nihilism: Melville's Short Novels (1970)
The End of Culture: Essays on Sensibility in Contemporary Society (1975)
Edges of Extremity: Some Problems of Literary Modernism (1980)
Paul Goodman (1980)
Nathanael West (1982)
Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts (1988)
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Defiant Desire
Some Dialectical Legacies of D. H. Lawrence
Kingsley Widmer
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright 1992 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Kyle Lake
Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Widmer, Kingsley, 1925
Defiant desire : some dialectical legacies of D.H. Lawrence /
Kingsley Widmer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930Criticism and
interpretation. 2. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. 1844-1900
Influence. 3. Negation (Logic) in literature. 4. Desire in
literature. 5. Dialectic. I. Title.
PR6023.A93Z9542 1992
823'.912dc20 91-28121
ISBN 0-8093-1763-X CIP
"Desire and Denial, Dialectics of Passion in D. H. Lawrence." D. H. Lawrence Review 18 (1985-86): 139-150. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Melville and the Myths of Modernism." A Companion to Melville Studies. Edited by John Bryant. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
"The Pertinence of Modern Pastoral: The Three Versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover." Studies in the Novel 5 (Fall 1973): 298-313. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Picture 2
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
1. Defiant Desire: Introduction, Examples, Adumbrations
1
2. Dark Prophecy of Negative Desire: Lawrence's Nietzschean Matrix
40
3. Problems of Desire in Lady Chatterley's Lover
70
4. Lawrence's Desiring and Negating American Progeny: Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Some Melvilleans
100
5. Desirable and Negative Legacy of Lawrence as Dissident Culture Hero
131
Notes
177
Works Cited
222
Index
239

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Acknowledgments
From several dozen articles on and around Lawrence, I have selected half a dozen to not only rewrite but to partly reformulate into a fairly continuous argument for this book. Though it deploys mostly different material, I see it as a continuation and extension of the perspective presented in my book on Lawrence a generation ago, The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962), which was the redoing of a dissertation and a group of essays done in the middle 1950s. But perhaps I have learned a few things in my unceasing dialectic with the subject and some of its ramifications, several of which I explore here.
Obviously there is an ongoing indebtedness to many persons involved over nearly four decades in my arguments with and around Lawrence and the Lawrenceans. Probably there is also an apology due to many as well for my not having learned more fully from their responses and for my not making more charitable acknowledgment. But my weakness at careerist decorums may also be seen to have other, more iconoclastic as well as naive, purposes.
At least I can make brief specific acknowledgment here of the previously published essays, and their energetic editors, that provided the scaffolding for the present book. For the earliest one, James Cox both suggested and raised problems about "The Pertinence of Modern Pastoral: The Three Versions of
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