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Losing the Self: Transgression in Lawrence and Bataille
Article Losing the Self: Transgression in Lawrence and Bataille

Dans Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre

par Bown, Alfie

Études Lawrenciennes

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Losing the Self: Transgression in Lawrence and Bataille

dans Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre

Auteur(s) : Bown, Alfie
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    • 2013-12-20T01:00:00Z
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    • Transgression is the crossing of a boundary or limit. It carries with it a legal implication, and a moral one. In Middle English, transgression is disobedience to God’s law. As Lydgate writes in 1426, the earliest use in English retained by the OED, “transgressyoun ys for to say A goyyng fro the ryht[ë] way.” D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) and Georges Bataille (1897-1962) both reconfigure the concept of transgression. Criticizing the traditional conception of transgression as the immoral yieldin...
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