MASCULINITY, DOMINATION AND THE OTHER IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER
MASCULINITY, DOMINATION AND THE OTHER IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER
Author(s): Adrian RaduSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: dualism; dominance vs. submission; homoeroticism; Männerbund; masculinity; élan vital;
Summary/Abstract: “The Prussian Officer” is one of D.H. Lawrence’s stories in which he develops his leadership ideas. The present article discusses such leadership ideas and associates them with the concept of masculinity, insisting on its facets and implications in a story of male bondage, perceived as a dramatic, tragic homoerotic game of opposing and annihilating poles. The story is ultimately generated by the Lawrentian visions of dualism, life sustaining vigour and subsequent obsession with supremacy.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 93-99
- Page Count: 7