D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present

by Tom Paulin and Amit Chaudhuri

This important study from the prizewinning novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri explores D. H. Lawrence's position as a "foreigner" in the English canon. Focussing on the poetry, Chaudhuri examines how Lawrence's works, and Lawrence himself, have been read, and misread, in terms of their "difference." This is the first time that Lawrence's poetry has been discussed in the light of post-colonial and post-structuralist theory; it is also the first time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199260524
• ISBN13: 9780199260522
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.8"