Burning out the shames, the deepest, oldest shames, in the most secret places. It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave. Women, Literature, Criticism - Page 25edited by - 1978 - 177 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| John Sutherland - 1983 - 224 pages
...shames, in the most secret places. It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a...she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous death. She had often wondered what Abelard meant, when he said that in their year of love... | |
| Robert M. Polhemus - 1995 - 395 pages
...soul, fundamentally, she had needed this phallic hunting out" [XVI, 268]). The prose is embarrassing: "She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave. . . . she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous death. She had often wondered what... | |
| Jonathan Dollimore - 1991 - 402 pages
...shames, in the most secret places. It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave. . . . She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which the shame died. . .... | |
| David Herbert Lawrence - 1994 - 434 pages
...shames, in the most secret places. It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a...round her, consuming, and when the sensual flame of it passed through her bowels and breast, she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous... | |
| John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 pages
...deepest, oldest shames, in the most secret places," though it depends on a completely submissive woman — "She had to be a passive consenting thing, like a...physical slave. Yet the passion licked round her." But with Gerald and Gudrun in Women in Love (chapter 31), the same act forecasts their violent separation... | |
| Brenda Maddox - 1996 - 664 pages
...shames, in the most secret places. It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a...sensual flame of it pressed through her bowels and her breast, she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous death. She had often wondered... | |
| Nancy Armstrong - 2002 - 354 pages
...shames, the deepest, oldest shames, in the most secret places. It cost her an effort to let him have his thing, like a slave, a physical slave. Yet the passion...thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvelous death. She had often wondered what Abelard meant, when he said that in their year of love he and Heloise had... | |
| Allison Pease - 2000 - 268 pages
...struggles. When the text says that in allowing Mellors to "have his way and his will of her" Connie "had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave" (LCL 267), it evokes typical pornographic imagery in the power dynamic that is buttressed by colonial... | |
| Kath Albury - 2002 - 232 pages
...woman's point of view) is 'at once blindincjly heterosexist and desperately homoerotic'' (1991:274): She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave . . . She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died . .... | |
| Frances L. Restuccia - 2006 - 212 pages
...death, along with the death of her subjectivity. Connie lets Mellors "have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a...she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous death" (p. 312). Passages relating Connie's "masochistic," jouissance-producing desubjectivation... | |
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