The art of appropriation: the rhetoric of sexuality in D.H. Lawrence.(Rhetoric and Poetics)
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Date: 6/22/1996
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Author: Doherty, Gerald
D.H. Lawrence used metaphor and metonymy to present the difference between phallic and clitoral orgasm. He used both to assert that male eroticism is superior to that of the female by assigning positive values to the former and negative to the latter. 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' presents the sequential arousal-foreplay-climax pattern of male eroticism with the assigned value of 'good.' 'The Rainbow,' meanwhile, presents the opposite. The tenor of his narrative also conflated sexuality with ...
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