“THE CHATTERLEY SYNDROME” IN THE ENGLISH MODERNIST NOVEL

Abstract

In the article the concept of “disability” as a socio-psychological category, which plays a significant role in the structure of the English modernist novel, is considered. The symptomatic character of this phenomenon in the XX century is shown by the example of the novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence that has given the name to a disability form resulting from injury, often during the First World War. The gender aspect of disability and its artistic realization in the novel are also studied. It is proved that the writer gives his central character a disintegrated identity where the natural integrity of the person in the aspect of body and spirit correlation is disrupted.

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• Published: January 1, 2015.

Keywords

• смыслообразы болезни и инвалидности
• «Синдром Чаттерли»
• физическая инаковость
• гендерная идентичность
• телесность
• meaningful images of disease and disability
• “the Chatterley Syndrome”
• physical otherness
• gender identity
• corporality

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