The contingency of agnosticism on uncertainty: an alternative reading of faith and (un)‎ faith in “women in love”

Abstract EN

If “Women in Love” is the epitome of modernist literature chronicling a religious thematic fissure between the conventional and the non-conventional, i.

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between faith and unfaith, then it is also a novel that draws significantly from these two sources of meaning, departing from certainty to reach uncertainty as the final destination.

The aim of this paper is threefold.

First, to show how the novel pulls the brakes on the quintessential theme of religion and expands on it from a rather epistemic standpoint, relying heavily on uncertainty as the guiding principle of the work of Lawrence.

Second, to illuminate the persistence of an ongoing struggle of the being into the becoming reified in the characters, and lastly, to demonstrate Lawrence's affiliation with the rather non-reputable religious stance, that is agnosticism.