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D. H. Lawrence and the Dance

D. H. Lawrence and the Dance MarkKinkeadWeekes ... we dance together, Out of the sunshineintothe shadow Passingacrossthe shadowinto the sunlight, Out of sunlightto shadow... 'Frohnleichnam' Christi) (Corpus Dance runs like a vein of ore throughout Lawrence's work - a sensitive register of how his vision of the human-being-in-theworld grew and deepened. From George whirling across a flagged kitchen with Lettie in the first novel - to the couple dancing naked on Corpus Christi day in the poem just quoted - to the exquisite and joyous dance of life in the Etruscan place of death near the very end, Lawrence saw in human beings, dancing, a sudden bodily tapping into and revelation of what they are at their innermost, unbeknownst to themselves. As early as The WhitePeacock,dancing becomes a way of breaking through 'character' and 'social relationship', to reveal something deeper. For seven chapters, Lettie peacocks it before Leslie, son of the local mine-owner, and the uneducated young farmer, George. She is pretty, vivacious, artistic (in her own view); but superior, and pleased with her own power over men; but the real question for Lawrence even now is not so much Lettie's character or who she will marry, as what she will choose to be, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dance Research Edinburgh University Press

D. H. Lawrence and the Dance

Kinkead-Weekes, Mark
Dance Research , Volume 10 (1): 59 – Apr 1, 1992
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Edinburgh University Press
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©© 1992 Society for Dance Research
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0264-2875
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1750-0095
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10.2307/1290699
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MarkKinkeadWeekes ... we dance together, Out of the sunshineintothe shadow Passingacrossthe shadowinto the sunlight, Out of sunlightto shadow... 'Frohnleichnam' Christi) (Corpus Dance runs like a vein of ore throughout Lawrence's work - a sensitive register of how his vision of the human-being-in-theworld grew and deepened. From George whirling across a flagged kitchen with Lettie in the first novel - to the couple dancing naked on Corpus Christi day in the poem just quoted - to the exquisite and joyous dance of life in the Etruscan place of death near the very end, Lawrence saw in human beings, dancing, a sudden bodily tapping into and revelation of what they are at their innermost, unbeknownst to themselves. As early as The WhitePeacock,dancing becomes a way of breaking through 'character' and 'social relationship', to reveal something deeper. For seven chapters, Lettie peacocks it before Leslie, son of the local mine-owner, and the uneducated young farmer, George. She is pretty, vivacious, artistic (in her own view); but superior, and pleased with her own power over men; but the real question for Lawrence even now is not so much Lettie's character or who she will marry, as what she will choose to be,

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Published: Apr 1, 1992

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