The sound of silence

Resource Information

The work The sound of silence represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The sound of silence

Statement of responsibility

Anju Kanwar

Creator

• Kanwar, Anju, (Professor)

Subject

• Lawrence, D. H., (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Characters | Single women
• Short story
• Silence in literature
• Single women in literature
• Speech in literature
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
• History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "As one of the most notorious writers of English literature, D.H. Lawrence continues to engender interest and debate. The Sound of Silence breaks new ground through its dual focus on Lawrence's shorter fiction and, especially, his representations of unmarried women in their narrative and cultural context. Thus, it shows the significance of being an unmarried woman
• By exploring the sociocultural significance of roles such as speech, silence, and images of women as virgins and prostitutes, sisterhood among women, and the possibility of androgyny, this study demonstrates that though Lawrence frequently exhibits the supremacy of "Nature" in short fiction that is sometimes essentialist and patriarchal toward women, he also exhibits his struggle to reexamine and interrogate that position."--Jacket

Member of

• American university studies, Series IV, English language and literature, vol. 189

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.912

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6023.A93

LC item number

Z6363 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

American university studies. Series IV, English language and literature

Series volume

v. 189