Metaphor's Way of Knowing

Download or read book Metaphor's Way of Knowing written by Patricia L. Hagen and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book demonstrates the centrality of metaphor to Lawrence's radical sense of the constructed nature of all knowledge and his resulting belief in poetry as an alternative way of knowing. The book insightfully explains how Lawrence's most important volumes of poetry, Birds, Beasts and Flowers and Last Poems, shatter prevailing metaphors of «mechanism», Lawrence's shorthand for our reliance on the rational, the visual, and the empirical. It carefully explores the vibrant images of these poems and how they embed the poet's revolutionary views on knowledge. Despite his reputation, Lawrence's alternative system anticipates much contemporary feminist cultural criticism.