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Staging the gaze in D.H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love.'

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19940922
Author:Ingersoll, Earl

Gaze and looking are important aspects of D.H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love.' Gazing, which is a component in other Lawrence novels also, acquires a complexity when used to describe the maturing relationships of Ursula Brangwen - Rupert Birkin and Gudrun Brangwen - Gerald Crich. The gaze metaphor acquires complexity because it crosses the everyday sense of looking and acquires connotations of a mystic vision. Such a reading of Lawrence's treatment allows a psychoanalytic exploration of the novel and its characters.

Lawrence's fifth novel, Women in Love, has been almost universally judged ...

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