In this paper I attemp to outline the centrality of visual images in Lawrence’s work in the crucial years of World War I. In spite of his idiosyncratic and often rather inconsistent response, they become an epistemological tool that is much more powerful than words to project his ideas and his dualistic vision of the universe. Lawrence’s idiosyncratic history of art, in his critical book about Thomas Hardy, turns out to be an essential instrument for understanding, in this crucial, transitional phase of his literary career, his opening up towards creative influences and the impact of visual, mainly pictorial and plastic images on his theoretical reflection on literature and on the development of his own poetics.
Words and Icons. The Suggestions of Visual Arts in Lawrence from Study of Thomas Hardy to Women in Love
MICHELUCCI, STEFANIA
2002-01-01
Abstract
In this paper I attemp to outline the centrality of visual images in Lawrence’s work in the crucial years of World War I. In spite of his idiosyncratic and often rather inconsistent response, they become an epistemological tool that is much more powerful than words to project his ideas and his dualistic vision of the universe. Lawrence’s idiosyncratic history of art, in his critical book about Thomas Hardy, turns out to be an essential instrument for understanding, in this crucial, transitional phase of his literary career, his opening up towards creative influences and the impact of visual, mainly pictorial and plastic images on his theoretical reflection on literature and on the development of his own poetics.
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