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Lawrence and Comedy (Hardcover, New)
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Lawrence and Comedy (Hardcover, New)
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Lawrence's genius is unquestioned, but he is seldom considered a
writer interested in comedy. This 1996 collection of essays by
distinguished scholars explores the range, scope and sheer verve of
Lawrence's comic writing. Comedy for Lawrence was not, as his
contemporary Freud insisted, a mere defence mechanism. The comic
mode enabled him to function parodically to undermine radically
those forms of authority from which he always felt estranged.
Lawrence's critique of the modern failure of the mystic impulse is
present in all the comic moments in his writing where it is used to
create an alternative cultural and social space. Lawrence used
humour to distance himself from the dominant orthodoxy surrounding
him, from the material of his fiction, from his readers, and,
finally, from his own often intensely serious preoccupations. This
book revises the popular image of Lawrence as a humourless writer
and reveals his strategic use of a genuine comic talent.
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