Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften D.H. Lawrence Today: Literature, Culture, Politics: 196 (American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature)

Product Description D. H. Lawrence Today is a rare and extraordinary blend of intellectual-political history, psycho-literary biography, and literary criticism not seen in Lawrence studies since the heyday of F. R. Leavis. Barry J. Scherr provides a vigorous defense of Lawrence against his powerful enemies in the literary-cultural-political-academic world - a world dominated today by the political correctness of the elite extreme left-wing intelligentsia. Dr. Scherr employs a daring, original, intense strategy to deal with Lawrence's enemies, involving unique, intricate, complex explication de texte as well as incisive polemic. Unconventional and seminal, D. H. Lawrence Today is the most stimulating, provocative, courageous book on Lawrence to appear in many years. Review «This is a timely, valuable, fascinating book. Barry J. Scherr is performing an invaluable service in bringing these issues to attention.» (Avrom Fleishman, Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University) «Recently almost everybody who writes about D.H. Lawrence has concentrated on what in his work they found less than pleasing. Barry J. Scherr should be thanked for reminding us of its now largely forgotten merits. Scherr has a unique point of view, and he makes a convincing argument. What he has to say is something new and will enlighten as well as annoy the official Lawrence critics.» (Leslie Fiedler, Samuel Clemens Professor, SUNY Distinguished Professor) About the Author The Author: Barry J. Scherr is an independent scholar who (according to Harold Bloom) «promises to be one of the leading post-Leavis Lawrence critics and scholars». He received his Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Scherr is the author of D. H. Lawrence's Response to Plato: A Bloomian Interpretation (Peter Lang, 1996). He has published a dozen articles on Lawrence, and he has taught at many major American colleges and universities, among them SUNY-Buffalo, Brooklyn College (CUNY), and Rutgers University.