Peter OsterriedDie Metapher als phänomenologische Grundlage für das Verständnis der Leiblichkeit bei D. H. Lawrence

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This study offers innovative literary criticism due to a new perspective on metaphor based on linguistic research, namely on conceptual metaphors in the tradition of Lakoff & Johnson (1980): They see language as such, also our everyday discourses, mainly influenced by metaphorical concepts. The latter are very different from the conventional understanding of metaphor as a literary trope.

As Lakoff & Johnson explicitly start from a phenomenological language philosophy initiated by Merleau-Ponty (1945/1966), the present study explores how conceptual metaphors are rooted in the human body. Finally, one all-encompassing conceptual in the work of D.H. Lawrence is investigated in detail: Embodiment is Happiness and ist opposite Disembodiment is Distress.

About the author:

Peter Osterried, born in 1976 in Hattingen (Ruhr) (Germany). Since his studies of English, French, Pedagogy and Philosophy, he has been working as a teacher at school and at university. Numerous academic and literary publications. PhD in 2012. Main research interests: metaphorical, interdisciplinary and comparative studies, British Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gay Studies, Gender and Dance.