로렌스와 여성주의

Abstract

This paper, focusing on The Rainbow and Women in Love, discusses common critical errors and misconceptions that some detractors of Lawrence would make in analyzing his novels from a feminist perspective. Such common errors and misconceptions include an apparent disregard for the most elementary rules of literary criticism: first, that a writer's works not be judged from picked passages that contradict body of work as a whole ; second, that the artist and the fictional characters he creates are not the same and that it is often perilous to draw on biographical evidence to support interpretations of fiction ; and third, that what a writer may say in critical essays or letters at one time in his life is not always an accurate commentary on the whole of his fiction nor a definitive statement of his beliefs. The characteristics of Lawrence's feminism are as follows : first, that Lawrence takes the existential mode of human beings as a primitive ritual, ignoring ideological and traditional conceptions of gender ; second, that Lawrence's novels are concerned with traditions of women's literature in the Victorian Age ; third, that in light of social approaches to his feminism, he, as a pioneer ahead of his times, has greatly contributed to the improvement of women's social position and to the original equilibrium of female and male ; and finally, that he presents the female as the primary source of the creative arts.