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Dh Lawrence's "pull Nimes" And Indian Culture

Posted on:2009-02-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L SangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360272459485Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Scholars don't think so highly of Lawrence's mid and late works, such as "A aron's Rod ", "The Plumed Serpent", "Kangaroo", "The Woman Who Rode Away" and so on. They are generally denounced and criticized for too much preaching, sermons, mysticism and "leaders worship". The reason for most of this controversy occurring lies in that critics come with different backgrounds and positions, and thus only have a partial analysis and research in the author and works, thereby showing lack of careful analysis and thought in Lawrence's lifelong "Rananim" complex and his total personality. "Rananim" is the name given by Lawrence.for the ideal country in his heart. After the First World War, Lawrence had simply lost trust in the increasingly rotted western civilization that contorted human nature, so his dreamed to build a New World, in which a better human nature and civilization will re-grow on the relic of the rotted western civilization.In order to find out the "Rananim" at heart, he cast his eyes over the foreign countries, alien tribes and heathenism. He read a lot of cultural and religious books from and about various nations and became very interested in the ancient Indian culture. Because of The frequent concern to the mysterious continent, Indiana imagination began to appear in Lawrence's writing. In 1917, Lawrence left his hometown England gloomily and traveled around the world to look for "Rananim". He went to Sicily in Italy, Sri Lanka and Australia etc. Finally in 1922, he reached New Mexico and there he found the "Rananim" from ancient Indian religion.The search for the hope of mankind is fully reflected in the works of Lawrence. In this struggle between new world and old world, Lawrence played as a leading member of the suicide squad. Therefore, his "Rananim" dream and stance were becoming more and more straightforward and obvious in his late works. He is a not bad writer, but sometimes he would rather purchase the exhibition of his own ideas at the expense of giving up the artistic quality. In Lawrence's late works on exploration and realization of "Rananim", he expressed his viewpoints and philosophy more in an apocalypse type language instead of poetic language. Therefore, through analyzing the above, we will appreciate and understand Lawrence's late works more exactly and will get to know Lawrence more close to real.This article discourses the formation and development of Lawrence "Rananim" complex exactly in this sense and with the theory of imagologie, explores the process and result of Lawrence "imagination" and "watch" about remote Indian and at last analyses the essence of his "Rananim" and its similarity to Indian culture, namely why Lawrence found his " Rananim " in Indian culture.The first part of this article discusses the formation and development of the concept of "Rananim", and analyses, in terms of contingency and necessity, why Lawrence looked away and found "Rananim" in American Indian culture.As a continuation of the first part, the second part refers to that since Lawrence focused his concentration on Indian culture in hope of realizing "Rananim" and thus frequently concerned to the mysterious continent, a growing number of Indian imagination had began to appear in his novels, and Indian imagination had gradually played the "New World" role. The works during this period of time have many features of novel of a pilgrimage, which are all pilgrimage to Indian culture.The third part discusses when Lawrence had finally embarked on a long-awaited North American continent in 1922, the way he treated Indian culture changed from "Imagine" into "watch". Practical experience brought him a deep sense of the ugly civilization of the white in the United States. He believed even more strongly that the "Indian Spirit" was the weapon to prevail over the modern civilization. When the "soul of earth" returns to the American continent, it is the time when the realization of "Rananim" which Lawrence had long sought will be achieved. His novel "The Woman Who Rode Away" shows the exact picture of the return of "soul of earth" to North America.The last but not the least part- the fourth one, analyses the reasons for Lawrence's "Rananim" finally staying in Indian culture and points out that the essence of "Rananim" is the " balanced view of nature" and "Solar Myth", which has a great similarity to the essence of Indian religion.
Keywords/Search Tags:D.H.Lawrence, "Rananim", Indian Culture, Imagine Watch, Solar Myth
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