The aim of this paper is to show that World War I was a turning point in Lawrence’s life and artistic career. Seeing it as the collapse of Western civilization, he claimed the need of a palingenesis, a complete regeneration for human beings. This implied, at an ideological and also artistic level, the gradual shift from a historical to a mythical perspective which is particularly evident in the short novel The Ladybird (1923), set in England at the time of World War I.
The line and the circle: D.H. Lawrence, the First World War and myth
MICHELUCCI, STEFANIA
2009-01-01
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show that World War I was a turning point in Lawrence’s life and artistic career. Seeing it as the collapse of Western civilization, he claimed the need of a palingenesis, a complete regeneration for human beings. This implied, at an ideological and also artistic level, the gradual shift from a historical to a mythical perspective which is particularly evident in the short novel The Ladybird (1923), set in England at the time of World War I.
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