1. Why the Novel Matters
It is these rhetorical maneuvers, not the stated philosophy, that collectively constitute Lawrence's coherent critical vision of the novel as a genre. ... Obviously, the novel no more addresses the literal blood, bones, and skin of a reader than these other forms of writing do. ... The novel addresses the "whole" man not as literal blood and issue but as a collection of incongruous and contradictory experiences; this "whole" is the one that Lawrence argues other fields of thought and writing do not, and cannot, reach. ... Coleridge in his critical definitions of poetry, Lawrence rhetor...
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