11 février 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Shirley Bricout, « The Humble Touch of the Good Samaritan in D. H. Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.11923
This paper argues that by aestheticizing the humble in his novel Aaron’s Rod, D. H. Lawrence revisits the parable of the Good Samaritan in order to question the vulnerability human relationships entail. Mapping out Lawrence’s appropriation of the pattern of orientation, disorientation and reorientation Paul Ricœur identifies in the dynamics of parables will also highlight shifts in reading protocols. Though Lawrence delineates a practice of care that reinstates the cosmic man he so strongly believed in, its political achievement is hampered by his view that the humble should submit to an aristocracy of a Nietzschean type.