screwdriver-缅甸语翻译
The Rocking-Horse Winner:
Overview
Critic:
Simon Baker
Source:
Reference
Guide
to
Short
Fiction,
1st
ed.
,
edited
by
Noelle
Watson,
St. James Press,
1994
Criticism about:
D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence (1885-1930),
also
known as:
David Herbert Richards Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert
Richards)
Lawrence, Jessie Chambers,
Lawrence H. Davison, David Herbert Lawrence,
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Genre(s):
Short stories;
Travel literature; Novels; Plays; Poetry;
Translations; Psychological novels;
Literary criticism; Letters
(Correspondence); Essays
The
final
stories
of
D.H.
Lawrence,
written
in
the
middle
and
late
1920's,
represent
a
period
of
formal
experimentation,
in
which
he
moved
away
from
traditional
narrative
realism
and
the
settings
of
rural
and
urban
England
to
the
realm
of
the
mythical,
supernatural
fairy
story.
As
Frank
O'Connor
said,
the
withdrawal
of
the
sense
of
actuality
pushes
the
stories,
closer
to
the
tales
of
Puskin
and
Poe
rather
than
the
studious
realism
of
Chekhov
and Maupassant. Yet
that sense of the miraculous always present in
Lawrence's
narrative
saves
them
from
becoming
mere
exercises
in
the
occult
and uncanny.
The Lovely Lady,
1933),
Lawrence's second attempt to
write a contribution for a collection of
ghost stories compiled by Lady Cynthia
Asquith in 1926, is a fusion of
various
narrative modes. Perhaps closer to the German
M?rchen (in its
bleakness) than the
fairy story, it is a conscious artistic adaptation
of the oral storytelling technique.
It combines elements of the
supernatural
and
the
fable
with
a
variety
of
Lawrence's
favourite
traits,
such as the unhappy
marital relationship, the capitalist obsession
with
money and work, and the pervasive
sexual and religious symbolism.
The
characters
only
live
in
so
far
as
they
progress
the
narrative,
making
the
story similar to Doyle
Springer's definition of an
and
stylized parable where the characters are never
our prime concern,
since some idea
shapes the whole.
[that is, in such
stories, we are more
interested in
“
ideas
”—
th
emes rather than characters]
The
basic
plot
concerns
a
middle-class
couple
who
live
beyond
their
means,
and
the effect this has on their young son. Upset by
his mother's
unhappiness,
and
mindful
of
her
belief
that
the
family
are
he