로렌스 시와 성서의 상호텍스트성

Abstract

Lawrence’s poetry contains frequent references to biblical characters and symbols while, even when not invoking any particular passage from the Bible, his language is permeated by the rhythms of the Authorized Version. The Bible is a text which his own work most obviously and most often reworks. But his reworking of biblical material, redeploying fragments of the crumbling Judae-Christian tradition in his own creative writing, can be read as a form of postmodern bricolage, building provisional beliefs with the otherwise discredited tools that lie to hand. His deconstruction of the western metaphysical tradition anticipates the work of such postmodern theorist as Derrida. His poetry can be seen as a Derridean supplement to the Bible, both adding to and attempting to supplant the original. Lawrence insists that even the Bible, in other words, has to be rewritten, to be understood differently in each generation. Lawrence appears to present his poetry as a ‘counter-Bible’, a supplanting rather than a mere supplement or commentary upon the original. He sets up as a prophet who induces his readers to find their unbalanced consciousness and discover their real inner selves, and eventually to recover their vitality. Lawrence’s ultimate aim is the restoration of the whole man through the resurrection of blood-consciousness suppressed by nerve-brain consciousness. It is the apocalyptic that Lawrence wants to declare toward the ruinous and corrupt modern world.