Oriental Lawrence - Doherty, Gerald
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Oriental Lawrence: The Quest for the Secrets of Sex explores D.H. Lawrence's engagement with Eastern systems of thought, especially Buddhism and Yoga, which were his main sources of interest. It tracks their impact on his thinking and their influence on his fiction. Lawrence looked to the East less for social, political, or cultural resolutions to the chronic problems that beset the West, but to engage with limit-situations - moments of radical transformation when the self sheds its social accoutrements and discovers dynamic new ways of being-in-the-world. He sought those new levels of…mehr

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Oriental Lawrence: The Quest for the Secrets of Sex explores D.H. Lawrence's engagement with Eastern systems of thought, especially Buddhism and Yoga, which were his main sources of interest. It tracks their impact on his thinking and their influence on his fiction. Lawrence looked to the East less for social, political, or cultural resolutions to the chronic problems that beset the West, but to engage with limit-situations - moments of radical transformation when the self sheds its social accoutrements and discovers dynamic new ways of being-in-the-world. He sought those new levels of awareness, new modes of desire, new ways of transmuting the self, and new soteriological goals that the West seemed unable to offer.
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The Author: Gerald Doherty was Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Turku in Finland until his retirement in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from University College, London, where he lectured on Renaissance literature. Author of Theorizing Lawrence (Peter Lang 1999), over the past twenty years he has published widely on Modernist writers in American literary journals. He received a knighthood from the president of Finland (1990).
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"Professor Doherty continues to build on his established reputation as a leading (if not the best) Lawrence scholar whose work is known and admired internationally. There is nothing currently that compares to 'Oriental Lawrence'. It is a first, really. Doherty's only "rival" is himself." (Professor Karen Radell, Central Michigan University)
"Gerald Doherty always has things to say about Lawrence that are very well worthwhile paying attention to." (Earl Ingersoll, Distinguished Professor of English, The State University of New York at Brockport)