Shapes of openness
Subtitle: Bakhtin, Lawrence, laughter
By: by Matthew Leone
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781443818452
Description: Uses Bakhtinian theory as a means of testing pertinent criticism of Lawrence, providing a conceptual basis for the readings of Lawrence's fiction, especially Women in love.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Glossary of indistinctions; title: "Unity of a higher order" : dialectics, dialogics, laughter; title: "They were glad ... they laughed" : the shape of openness in Women in love; title: "Is our day of creative life finished?" : Women in love's unanswerability; title: "I like it. It doesn't feel finished." : laughter and the "final word".