| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 外國語文學系 === 82 === This thesis is an intertextual reading of D. H. Lawrence's "The
Princess," "The Man Who Loved Islands," "St. Mawr," "Sun," "The
Man Who Died" and "The Woman Who Rode Away" alongside with
Georges Bataille's treatise on death and sensuality. In this
connection, the thesis is mainly concerned with the reciprocity
of Lawrence's proposition on the fulfillment of self through
sensual communions and Bataille's notion of the completion of
self through death and sensuality. Both Lawrence and Bataille
agree the access to the comple- tion of self is sensuality and
death. For Lawrence, the self is incomplete and suffered in
the way he is sensually repressed, or spiritually dominated.
To regain the sufficing completeness, he must renounce the
futile and fatal spirituality and undergo com- pensating sexual
or sensual activities in order to retrieve his lost
sensuality. In parallel to Lawrence's elaboration, Bataille
states that the self is insufficient and tormented because he
is sensually limited, restrained, or reserved in usual
condition. Only when he is utterly in the effervescence of
sensuality, such as in the act of sexuality or sacrifice does
he become a limited- less existence which is identical with the
complete universe and is he sufficed by his communication with
the complementary other or universe. The reciprocity of
Lawrence's proposition on the fulfillment of self through
sensual communications and Bataille's notion of the completion
of self through death and sensuality is illumi- nated in the
progressive view of the thesis from the collapse of human
spirituality in "The Princess" and "The Man Who Loved Islands,"
the awakening of human sensuality in "St. Mawr," "Sun" and "The
Man Who Died" to the culmination of human sensuality in "The
Woman Who Rode Away."
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