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D. H. Lawrence’s Language of Sacred Experience

The Transfiguration of the Reader

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  • © 2005

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  1. Charles Michael Burack
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Charles Michael Burack
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Destruction Phase of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    • Charles Michael Burack
    Pages 13-30

  4. The Revitalization Phase of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    • Charles Michael Burack
    Pages 31-50

  5. Transformative Uses of Kabbalistic Concepts and Terms in The Rainbow

    • Charles Michael Burack
    Pages 51-82

  6. Mechanistic and Yogic Discourses in Women in Love

    • Charles Michael Burack
    Pages 83-125

  7. The Implosion of the Transformative Pattern in The Plumed Serpent

    • Charles Michael Burack
    Pages 126-155

  8. Conclusion

    • Charles Michael Burack
    Pages 156-158

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 159-206
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This book demonstrates how D.H. Lawrence's prophetic ambitions impelled him to create novels that would radically transform the consciousness of his readers. Charles Burack argues that Lawrence's major novels, beginning with The Rainbow , are structured as religious initiation rites that attempt to break down the reader's normative mindset and to evoke new, numinous experiences of self and world. Through careful analysis of narrative structure, literary technique, and sacred discourses, Burack shows that Lawrence tries to initiate the reader into his own version of religious vitalism. Unlike most initiations that conclude with powerful affirmations, Lawrence's novels generally end with an attempt to subvert the formation of new religious dogmas and to encourage sacred-erotic exploration.

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"This is the sort of book which makes one glad to be an academic, which is to say it is a pleasure to read and demonstrates the added value that original scholarship can bring to works of literature. Charles Burack s book is well-written and persuasively argued." - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts"While most critics have emphasized his psychological insights or uncanny evocations of place, Charles Burack's fresh study focuses on the novelist's prophetic aspirations. As this commentator plows new ground, the reader reaps new perspectives." - Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

About the author

CHARLES BURACK is on the faculty of Naropa University, USA, where he specializes in integrative approaches to literature, writing, religion and psychology. He also teaches at UC Berkeley, St. Mary's College, John F. Kennedy University and California Institute of Integral Studies, USA. A widely published scholar, writer and poet, Burack received the biennial New Scholar Award 2000-2001 (first recipient) of the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America. He is on the Editorial Board of Tikkun magazine and is a reviewer for Mosaic journal and the D.H. Lawrence Review.

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