Originally published in 1965 by Faber and Faber, The Forked Flame has gained a reputation for being perhaps the best study of D.H. Lawrence's major works. H.M. Daleski, Professor of English at The Hebrew University, examines six novels - Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Aaron's Rod, The Plumed Serpent, and Lady Chatterley's Lover - in a way that makes the book accessible to all students of Lawrence. A new preface brings readers up to to date on the development of Daleski's own thinking in the years since the book was first published.

The Forked Flame: A Study of D.H. Lawrence

Literature & Fiction

Daleski, H. M.

History & Criticism

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

The forked flame: A study of D.H.Lawrence by Hillel Matthew Daleski

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Dickens and the art of analogy,

FABER

Joseph Conrad, the way of dispossession

Emphasizing the vast changes in literary criticism that have occurred during the last thirty years, H. M. Daleski reexamines Thomas Hardy's novels in the novelist's own terms, presenting a revisionary account of his treatment of gender. He also shows that Hardy was not as sexist as is asserted in much feminist criticism and that his female characters are sympathetically portrayed as the centers of his fictional worlds. By carefully analyzing the novels, Daleski refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his powers, claiming that he drove himself to a dead end in Jude the Obscure.The typical Hardy plot places a female protagonist in a love triangle with two male protagonists who are portrayed as polar opposites. The woman contradicting a general view of her as victim is always granted the freedom of choice of a marriage partner. She invariably makes the wrong choice, which leads to a bad marriage and disastrous sexual relationships. As this scenario is played out in most of Hardy's novels, the men are presented as distinct types, the types being depicted with rich diversity and with steadily greater psychological depth. Hardy's rendering of sexuality in both his male and his female characters is marked by its originality and profundity. In his intuitions about sexual relations, Daleski maintains Hardy was not outdone by writers such as Lawrence and Joyce.Daleski studies Hardy within his Victorian context, but he also shows that Hardy, both in his depiction of sexuality and in his technical innovations, was in advance of his time. In these respects Hardy deserves to be regarded as a forerunner of the great modernists.In Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love, Daleski offers acute and thoughtful analyses of Hardy's major novels. Avoiding critical jargon, the author has made his book accessible to all readers with an interest in Hardy and his novels, as well as in the study of gender in English literature.

Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love (Volume 1)

British & Irish

University of Missouri

Daleski, H.M., Joseph Conrad: The Way Of Dispossession

Holmes & Meier

The Divided Heroine: A Recurrent Pattern in Six English Novels

Holmes & Meier Pub

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The Forked Flame: A Study of D.H. Lawrence

The Forked Flame: A Study of D.H. Lawrence

Dickens and the art of analogy,

Joseph Conrad, the way of dispossession

Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love (Volume 1)

Joseph Conrad, the way of dispossession

The Divided Heroine: A Recurrent Pattern in Six English Novels