When the essay "Why the Novel Matters" is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would. ... Coleridge in his critical definitions of poetry, Lawrence rhetorically represents the novel in large, binary, metaphorical terms that implicitly lend dignity to its genre. ...

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