Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Departing from the belief that humanity has been perverted by idealism, Lawrence engages in a lifelong struggle in order to save modern society from decay and madness. Throughout his work, he tries to draw our attention to empirical experience as opposed to abstract theorising, and awaken our sensuous mode of being in distinct polarisation with our mental consciousness. He likes to point out the many marvels of the living world. For Lawrence,...

Research paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Literature and irony are intimately associated with man's predicament. Myth, epic, classical tragedy, "The Canterbury Tales," "Arabian Nights," "King Lear," Swift's "Modest Proposal," modern and post-modern literature such as Joyce's "A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man," Orwell's "Animal Farm," Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," all of these devote a substantial part to irony. Whether it is Socratic, dramatic, tragic, "cosmic," Romantic, structural, or...

Research Paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Starting from the apocalyptic modernist assumption that " h]umanity is a dead letter" ("Women in Love" 60) Lawrence launches, especially after the Great War, his bitterest attacks on bourgeois society. He accuses Western civilisation of causing the impoverishment of what he calls the sensuous vitality of the "lower self" ("Fantasia of the Unconscious and Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious" 178), of turning human beings into spineless abstractions, and of...

Research paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: The sweeping assertion "once a rebel, always a rebel," soliloquised by Alan Sillitoe's character Arthur Seaton in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," published in 1958, echoes the dissent of the Angry Young Men of the late fifties and sixties in Britain and functions as a binding theme and narrative strategy yoking together the different fragments of the novel. The purpose of this paper is to study the various aspects of the anti-hero's dissenting action, assess...