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      • Edited by Paul Eggert, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, John Worthen, University of Nottingham
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 March 2010
      26 July 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511665745
      9780521562751
      9780521118699
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511665745
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 232 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 232 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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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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