D. H. Lawrence. An American Interpretation

The Social Thinking of D . H . Lawrence

IT is easy to be aware of Lawrence's great effect on our thinking about social values, but it is difficult, for a number of reasons, to give any exact account of his actual contribution. It is not only that the public projection of him is very different from his actual work, and that this has led to important misunderstandings (that he believed that "sex solves everything"; that he was "a precu...

Translation , Interpretation , and the Humanities Lawrence Venuti

Over the past half-century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field around the world, and in recent years programs devoted to the teaching of translation have proliferated. Surveys indicate more than 350 programs worldwide (for a list periodically updated by the European Society for Translation Studies, see http://www.est-translationstudies.org/resources/tti/tti.htm). Th...

The North American Great Lakes / St . Lawrence

Matroids: h-vectors, Zonotopes, and Lawrence Polytopes

Humanities and social sciences D . H . Lawrence ’ s Death - Eaters in Women in Love Kristin

This paper offers a Derridian reading of D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love, with excerpts from the novel’s prequel The Rainbow. Through Derrida’s ideas of difference and the imaginary origin, I explore the relationship between female reproductive potential and representation as means to a female sexual power, which Lawrence’s men attempt to destroy and subvert. By attacking realms of represen...