Solar Copulation and Spiral Rhythm

Norman Mailer, Giovanni Verga, Trigant Burrow, and the Courage of Desire in D. H. Lawrence’s “Sun”

Authors

  • Peter Balbert Trinity University Author

Keywords:

D. H. Lawrence, “Sun”, Giovanni Verga, Trigant Burrow, sexuality, desire

Abstract

“Sun” is regarded as one of D.H. Lawrence’s finest short stories, although critics have not sufficiently focused on its integrated structure, patterned repetition, and visionary implications. There is inadequate engagement with the story’s resonance within the arc of Lawrence’s turbulent life and artistic preoccupation that may bear upon his creation of this sensuous tale. There are standard perspectives on the story as well as elements of Lawrence’s fictional technique, including aspects of his craft that are further illuminated by relevant ideas about narration and sexuality in the work of Norman Mailer, Trigant Burrow, and Giovanni Verga. One of the finest pieces of psychobiography on Lawrence’s art and life is by Norman Mailer in The Prisoner of Sex.

Author Biography

  • Peter Balbert, Trinity University

    Peter Balbert is Professor of English at Trinity University. He has published more than fifty essays on D.H. Lawrence and other modern and contemporary writers, and is the author of D.H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination and D.H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm, and is the co-editor of D.H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration. His most recent book, D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix: Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence, was published by Cambridge Scholars.

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Published

2020-10-15

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Balbert, Peter. “Solar Copulation and Spiral Rhythm: Norman Mailer, Giovanni Verga, Trigant Burrow, and the Courage of Desire in D. H. Lawrence’s ‘Sun’”. The Mailer Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2020, pp. 153–170, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/726.