English Language and Literature ETDs

Publication Date

3-3-1961

Abstract

Symbolic texture, a combination of two terms outlined above, uses images generally thought of as textural to form groups of symbols that support the main theme of a story and provide for its underlying unit. This element or quality is in the work; it is not the feeling or "radiance" arising from the reader's reception of the work.

The stories I have chosen to illustrate symbolic texture and to trace its variations in Lawrence's work are: Odour of Chrysanthemums, Daughters of the Vicar, The Horse Dealer's Daughter, The Fox, The Virgin and the Gypsy. These works were chosen for three primary reasons: (1) all of them are successful in achieving aesthetic responses; (2) they represent approximately equidistant periods in Lawrence's writing career, and as such will show changes as well as continuing traits of presentation; (3) they all portray variations on the arousal of sudden feelings of connection between man and woman. For reasons obvious to readers of Lawrence, I hesitate to call this sudden connection love in the ordinary sense of the word, and yet these are all love stories as Lawrence conceived them.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Ernest Warnock Tedlock Jr

Second Committee Member

George Warren Arms

Third Committee Member

Morris Freedman

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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