El dialecto en la literatura inglesa: notas diacrónicas de sus usos y estudio sincrónico de la aportación de D. H. Lawrence

Abstract

One of the most required landmarks in literary criticism is the recognition, study and investigation on the intertextual resonance of literary texts. They conform a tradition in which every text has historical relationships with others that came before it and after it 1. In the following essay, I will attempt first to present a diachronic synthesis of dialectal usages in English literature: the function of non-standard varieties and their representation in the works of particular authors. This historical background will provide the necessary context to proceed to offer and contrast the contributions made through the novelistic production of D.H. Lawrence.