“Creep closer in, that I am more” –Is there a “theory of human relativity” in the Poetics of Look! We Have Come Through?

Lawrence’s collection of poems, Look! We Have Come Through! was published in 1917, so it was written years before Lawrence read about Einstein’s theory of relativity. But this series of poems, which depicts the dynamic, sometimes difficult, mutual dependence of two lovers, nevertheless evokes a for...

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Xuất bản năm:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence,
Tác giả chính: Brault-Dreux, Elise
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Anglais
Được phát hành: Études Lawrenciennes 2020
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Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt:Lawrence’s collection of poems, Look! We Have Come Through! was published in 1917, so it was written years before Lawrence read about Einstein’s theory of relativity. But this series of poems, which depicts the dynamic, sometimes difficult, mutual dependence of two lovers, nevertheless evokes a form of “human relativity.” A few years later, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, Lawrence returns to this notion of “a theory of human relativity,” the necessity for which, he insists, exceeds that of E...