DH Lawrence

Session E: Sunday 08.30 – 09.45

Lawrence, Modernism and the War (chair Margaret Storch)

• Masako Hirai, 'Rilke, Lawrence and the Spirit of the Age'
• Gaku Iwai, 'Re-reading Movements in European History in the Social and Political Contexts of Britain during the second decade of the Twentieth Century'
• Alasdair Menmuir, 'Lawrence, the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the "war machine" and anti-state conscientious objection'

Group 2: Sons and Lovers, Realism and Dialect (chair Terry Gifford)

• Matthew Gaughan, 'Individual Experience and the Industrial Community: The Personalized Realism of Sons and Lovers' [cancelled]
• Ron Granofsky, '"His father's dirty digging": The Significance of Dirt in Sons and Lovers'
• Hilary Hillier, 'Community, family, "Morel": a dialect approach to Sons and Lovers'

Group 3: Idea and Consciousness (chair Jack Stewart)

• Masashi Asai, 'To Know, or Not To Know, That is the Question: Lawrence's "Blood Consciousness" and "Mental Consciousness" reconsidered'
• Reiko Kamiishida, 'The Paradox in Lawrence's Speculative Writings: the Twentieth-Century Anti-Idealism of Bergson, William James and D. H. Lawrence'