1. Why the Novel Matters
It is these rhetorical maneuvers, not the stated philosophy, that collectively constitute Lawrence's coherent critical vision of the novel as a genre. In the essay "Why the Novel Matters", Lawrence explores in his own way the Romantic concept of the relativity of parts and wholes to construct a doctrinal statement celebrating the novel over other fields of thought. ... Lawrence then elaborates, confounds, and contradicts this point in the ensuing thesis statement: "And that's what you learn if you are a novelist. ... This way, Lawrence's use of "supplement," in the Derridian ...
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