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(2013) Self-consciousness in modern British fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Removing the serpent's tail from its mouth
D. H. Lawrence's vision of embodied consciousness
Brook Miller
pp. 113-135
Ghiselin's pronouncement about D. H. Lawrence highlights an aspect of Lawrence's thinking closely related to the themes of this book: Lawrence's profound interest in the totality of consciousness and the material and experiential strata which generate it. Lawrence railed against reductive representations of consciousness. In this chapter, I trace how Lawrence's belief in dynamic, embodied consciousness manifests in his essays and last long novel. I hope to contribute to a partial reconciliation of Lawrence's polemics against the modernist novel with the similarities between his models of embodied consciousness and those articulated by the very modernists he dispraised.
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Miller, B. (2013). Removing the serpent's tail from its mouth: D. H. Lawrence's vision of embodied consciousness, in Self-consciousness in modern British fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 113-135.
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