D.H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective

D.H. Lawrences Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks and how reading fiction influences behavior, drawing a convergence between Lawrence's writings and those of Jacques Lacan. Stoltzfus analyzes seven major characters in seven chapters, showing how Lawrence's fiction is descriptive and prescriptive, offering recipes for curing the Anthropocene.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books

D.H. Lawrences Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks and how the reading of fiction influences behavior. Lawrence passionately writes about our alienation from ourselves, other people, and the cosmos, and he believes that we need to heed the voices of our unconscious. He shows us how to meld body and mind so that Id and Ego can come together. In this endeavor, there is a salient convergence between Lawrence's writings and those of Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst. In this book, Stoltzfus examines the poetics of seven major fictions that Lawrence wrote between 1925 and 1930, five productive years that are referred to as his fabulation period. In each of the book's seven chapters, in tandem with Lacan's writings, Stoltzfus analyzes seven major characters, four of whom move from alienation to the renewal of self and the cosmos. He argues that Lawrence's fiction is simultaneously descriptive and prescriptive by showing us how to circumvent dysfunction. Stoltzfus brings literature and psychoanalysis together in readings that are both aesthetic and epistemological. They are recipes for curing the Anthropocene.

Weight: 295g
Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666903690