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The symbolism of plants in D.H. Lawrence's story "England, my England" in the context of Englishness

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dc.contributor.author Khabibullina L.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-05T07:10:13Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-05T07:10:13Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.issn 1998-6645
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/130291
dc.description.abstract The article deals with the story "England, My England" (1915) by D.H. Lawrence which plays a prominent role in shaping the idea of Englishness in the literature of the twentieth century, based on the investigations of the 19th century. At that time one of the leading roles here belonged, in the author's opinion, to the study of the diversity of national types in England and their influence on English culture in works by Matthew Arnold, who is considered by many researchers as the founder of the concept of Englishness. In the article the author studies the system of characters and the "plant" symbolism in connection with national types. The analysis of the characters allows to make a conclusion about the author's conception of Englishness. In the story, D.H. Lawrence creates a realistic (the action took place in the period before World War I) and at the same time symbolical picture of life in Britain, where the concept of national character appears in its mythological version with the typical modernist emphasis on the cultural component as an immanent feature of national character. The mythological picture of the world in the story by D.H. Lawrence is created using "vegetative" symbols. Images of plants appear in the story in two ways: first, directly as part of the English countryside, ancient England, embodied in the form of a garden; second, as characteristics of the protagonists through Lawrence's key images of the fictional world - a Tree and a Rose. The study revealed that the "flower" symbols are used in order to embody the aristocratic values and the values of culture (folklore). The fragility and beauty of the flower represent the disappearance of this system of values. Characters which are connected with the series of "tree" comparisons demonstrate the force and power as the natural procreation of the English land. Implicitly the "flower" and the "tree' symbols are connected with aristocracy and bourgeoisie, but Lawrence does not give strict social characteristics, he prefers the language of symbols. It is important that Lawrence does not consider the bourgeoisie as something alien to England, as an external element. "Tree" symbolism allows to consider this type of people as fruits of the land. The research demonstrates that vegetative symbolism becomes most important in the British national myth, if to understand how important the value of nature and landscape in the culture of England is. This type of symbolization becomes a major feature of the rootedness of the character in the English land. The system of vegetative images creates a mythologized image of England as an ancient land whose secrets remain incomprehensible to us.
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Filologiya
dc.subject Celtic
dc.subject D.H. Lawrence
dc.subject Englishness
dc.subject Image of rose
dc.subject Norman
dc.subject Saxon
dc.subject Vegetative symbols
dc.title The symbolism of plants in D.H. Lawrence's story "England, my England" in the context of Englishness
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 48
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.relation.startpage 194
dc.source.id SCOPUS19986645-2017-48-SID85029890191


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