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D. H. Lawrence’s queer flatness
Textual Practice Pub Date : 2021-09-14 , DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2021.1970007
Noreen Masud 1
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ABSTRACT

Despite Lawrence's well-documented interest in ‘Alpine' landscapes, characters in his Sons and Lovers (1913), The Lost Girl (1920) and Kangaroo (1923) find themselves lingering in and on flat spaces. This essay attends to the dynamics of these flat spaces to complicate critical models which have emphasised sympathy, vitality and responsiveness in encounters with the Lawrentian Other. It finds that in Lawrence's prose, physical flatness offers a mode of habitation, and an occasion for a literary style, which encode a reserved self-presentation, a failure of mutuality and sympathy, and a refusal to participate in an economy of responsiveness. The first section examines the stakes of Lawrence's peculiar insistence that the reader invests in characters and situations which will later vanish from the plot, refusing stable focal points in the novel’s narrative landscape. The second section investigates the relationship between protagonist and flat landscape in Kangaroo to uncover a fundamental Lawrentian trope: openness which is nevertheless inaccessible, demanding a sustained attention that it cannot justify. The essay ends by arguing for the importance, in Lawrence, of relationship which may be at once intense and unresponsive, with one or more of the entities involved flatly complete in themselves.



中文翻译:

DH 劳伦斯的酷儿平坦

摘要

尽管劳伦斯对“高山”风景有充分的兴趣,但他的儿子和情人(1913 年)、迷失的女孩(1920 年)和袋鼠中的人物(1923) 发现自己在平坦的空间中徘徊。本文关注这些平坦空间的动态,使批判模型复杂化,这些模型强调与劳伦斯他者的遭遇时的同情、活力和反应。它发现,在劳伦斯的散文中,身体平坦提供了一种居住方式,以及一种文学风格的契机,这种风格编码了一种保留的自我表现、缺乏相互同情和拒绝参与响应性经济。第一部分考察了劳伦斯特别坚持读者投资于后来会从情节中消失的人物和情境的利害关系,拒绝小说叙事景观中的稳定焦点。揭示一个基本的劳伦斯比喻:尽管如此难以接近的开放性,需要持续的关注,这是无法证明的。在劳伦斯看来,这篇文章最后论证了关系的重要性,这种关系可能既紧张又反应迟钝,其中一个或多个所涉及的实体本身就完全完整。

更新日期:2021-09-14
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