| Although many studies of D. H. Lawrence refer to some "Lawrencean style," no major study of style has yet been undertaken. This first attempt studies Lawrence's style by examining ten representative short stories ("Witch a la Mode," "A Fragment of Stained Glass," "The Prussian Officer," "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter," "Sun," "The Woman who Rode Away," " The Blind Man," "Tickets, Please," "None of That," and "Blue Moccasins."), including, in some cases, previous versions of these stories. Chapter One attempts a definition of style and a method for studying it. Chapter Two examines Lawrence's diction. It establishes a Lawrencean vocabulary as well as certain common lexical patterns. Chapter Three studies syntactical patterns and the frequency of certain sentence types, predominately simple and complex. Lawrence's habitual use of apposition and parallelism, as well as some less common syntactical devices, are examined. Chapter Four explores Lawrence's paragraph rhythms: lengths of paragraphs and sentences, metric patterns and their relation to syntax, and the rhythm of thought in Lawrence's paragraphs. Chapter Five focuses on Lawrence's tone, point of view, and use of symbol and the relationship of these larger elements to diction, syntax, and rhythm. |
