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D.H. Lawrence Today

Literature, Culture, Politics

by Barry J. Scherr (Author)
©2004 Monographs 457 Pages
Series: American University Studies , Volume 196

Summary

D. H. Lawrence Today is a rare and extraordinary blend of intellectual-political history, psycho-literary biography, and literary criticism not seen in Lawrence studies since the heyday of F. R. Leavis. Barry J. Scherr provides a vigorous defense of Lawrence against his powerful enemies in the literary-cultural-political-academic world – a world dominated today by the political correctness of the elite extreme left-wing intelligentsia. Dr. Scherr employs a daring, original, intense strategy to deal with Lawrence’s enemies, involving unique, intricate, complex explication de texte as well as incisive polemic. Unconventional and seminal, D. H. Lawrence Today is the most stimulating, provocative, courageous book on Lawrence to appear in many years.

Details

Pages
457
Year
2004
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820458335
Language
English
Keywords
literary criticism intellectual-political history Lawrence, David H.
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2004. 457 pp.

Biographical notes

Barry J. Scherr (Author)

The Author: Barry J. Scherr is an independent scholar who (according to Harold Bloom) «promises to be one of the leading post-Leavis Lawrence critics and scholars». He received his Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Scherr is the author of D. H. Lawrence’s Response to Plato: A Bloomian Interpretation (Peter Lang, 1996). He has published a dozen articles on Lawrence, and he has taught at many major American colleges and universities, among them SUNY-Buffalo, Brooklyn College (CUNY), and Rutgers University.

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