“[M]y reach ends in my finger-tips”: Embodying the Relative and the Absolute, from “Christs in the Tyrol” to The Escaped Cock
The body: between the relative and the absoluteAs his art matured, Lawrence increasingly represented the body as his “absolute” measure of life and thought. Particularly from The Rainbow (1915) onwards, it was his writing of the body which kept Lawrence always sensuously alive to the interrelatedne...
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Études Lawrenciennes
2020
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The body: between the relative and the absoluteAs his art matured, Lawrence increasingly represented the body as his “absolute” measure of life and thought. Particularly from The Rainbow (1915) onwards, it was his writing of the body which kept Lawrence always sensuously alive to the interrelatedness –or relativity– of all being. In a sense, then (or perhaps I should say in the senses), Lawrence’s writing moves towards a vision of the body as both an absolute and the quintessence of relativi... |
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