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The Religious Initiation of the Reader in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow.(Critical Essay)

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From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 20000901
Author:BURACK, CHARLES M.

Some of the most influential modern British writers sought to evoke numinous states of consciousness in their readers. Using a phenomenological approach to the reading experience, this essay argues that D. H. Lawrence structures his novel The Rainbow as a religious initiation rite for revitalizing and reintegrating the reader's consciousness.

Many British modernist writers were deeply interested in radical transformations of consciousness. Some of their most powerful artistry went into crafting representations of epiphanies, visions, sacred encounters, and other numinous ...

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