Summary of article (Critic 2)

Revitalizing the reader: Literary Technique and the Lamguage of Sacred Experience in D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
By Burack, Charles M.

   This article is a criticism on one of D. H. Lawrence famous novels, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. The critic, Burack M., focus his criticism on the sexual content of the book which is the main reason for his critical argument. "The famous sex scenes in this novel have been celebrated for their beauty, verity, and liberating power. They have also been attacked as tedious, naive, sexist and obscene." While it has been noticed that the scenes represent the erotic initiation, there was failure of realizing that they are part of a narrative structure designed to imitate the reader. The aim of this initiation is to transform the consciousness of the reader.
  In contrast, sometimes it is forgotten that Lawrence was a fundamentally religious artist. That is, his sensibilities and artistic aims were profoundly shaped by his ongoing experience of the divine. As a well known novelist, Lawrence turned to religions of the world not only for symbols, myths, and rites  to use in his work, but also the purpose of ritual forms to structure his narratives and guide his technical innovations. Reason being his ultimate goal was to produce a spiritual transformation in his readers by evoking " new, really new feelings," especially the numinous " feeling of being beyond life and death," he became intrigue with the structure and function of religious initiation rites.
   An investigation carried out but Burack, Charles M shows that two phases determine the choice and arrangement of techniques and diction in 'Lady Chatterley's". These two faces are destruction phase and sacralization phase. Lawrence attempts to vitalize, expand and unify the reader's consciousness and  thereby engendered a sacred experience (sexual activities portrayed in the novel). The stage of disintegration dominates the first half of the novel. Whereas, the vitalization stage controls the second  half of the novel. Each stage is characterized by an array of structures, techniques and discourses. The overal argument of Burack is that as a religious man (artiste, novelist and poet), he using religion to aid in his writing and his literary pieces of art. However, he speaks about setting which is rarely discussed in a religious society and that is sex. This novel in particular speakers about the experience of sex thought explicit and vivid content.