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- Title
'ALLOTROPIC STATES' AND 'FIDDLE- BOW': D. H. LAWRENCE'S OCCULT SOURCES.
- Authors
Gibbons, Thomas
- Abstract
This article discusses two linguistic analogies, "allotropic states" and "fiddle-bow," used by English novelist and poet, D.H. Lawrence in his recent occult fiction, referencing one of his letters. It is reported that, in his letter of June 15, 1914, to his companion Edward Garnett, discussing a new type of characterization to be found in his fiction, Lawrence employed those two unusual scientific analogies for the ways in which human personalities are structured: that of the "allotropic states" of carbon, and that of the patterns formed upon a sanded plate when a "fiddle-bow" is drawn across its edge. The author suggests that both of these analogies are derived from widely read documents of the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century "occult revival." This letter has been extracted from the volume "The Letters of D.H. Lawrence," edited by George J. Zytaruk. In his letter, Lawrence follows a discussion Italian poet, F.T. Marinetti and Italian futurism.
- Subjects
LETTERS of D.H. Lawrence, The (Book); LAWRENCE, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930; ZYTARUK, George J.; ANALOGY (Linguistics); ENGLISH paranormal fiction; LETTERS; ENGLISH language; COMPARATIVE literature; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1988, Vol 35, Issue 3, p338
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/35-3-338