The Resource Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry : codes of bereavement, Galia Benziman
Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry : codes of bereavement, Galia Benziman
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- Summary
- This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Hardy, as argued here, is dialectically implicated in the very cultural and psychological amnesia that he resists, as her book demonstrates by expanding the corpus of study beyond the spousal elegies (the "Poems of 1912-1913") to include a wide variety of poems, novels and short stories that deal with bereavement and mourning. Locating the modern aspect of Hardy's elegiac writing in this ambivalence and in the subversion of memory as unreliable, the book explores the textual moments at which Hardy challenges binary dichotomies such as forgetting vs. remembering, narcissism vs. unselfish commitment, grief vs. betrayal, the work of mourning vs. melancholia, presence vs. absence. The book's analysis allows us to relate Hardy's elegiac poetics, and particularly his description of the mourner as a writer, to shifting late-Victorian conceptualizations of death, memory, art, science and gender relations
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Patterns of Mourning: Cultural and Theoretical Frameworks; Utilitarianism, Pain and the Anatomy Act; The Psychic Life of Grief: Mourning or Melancholia; Alternative Immortalities: The Scientific Discourses of Death; Literary Contexts: Mourning, Language and the Transition to Modern Elegy; Hardy's Codes of Bereavement: Revising the Elegiac Mode; Mourning Figurations, Textualising the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 2: "Hands Behind Hands": Seeing the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 3: "Spectres that Grieve": The Dead Speak; Works Cited
- Chapter 4: "Still Corporeally Imminent": Hardy's Revenants"It Was the Figure of a Woman": Retrieving the Dead in Desperate Remedies; Works Cited; Chapter 5: "For She Won't Know": Utilising the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 6: "I Do but the Phantom Retain": The Mistrust of Memory; The Dead as Image: Metaphorical Absorption; The Art of Bereavement: Memory as Text; Works Cited; Works Cited; Index
- Isbn
- 9781137507136
- Label
- Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry : codes of bereavement
- Title
- Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry
- Title remainder
- codes of bereavement
- Statement of responsibility
- Galia Benziman
- Title variation
- Elegiac prose and poetry
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Hardy, as argued here, is dialectically implicated in the very cultural and psychological amnesia that he resists, as her book demonstrates by expanding the corpus of study beyond the spousal elegies (the "Poems of 1912-1913") to include a wide variety of poems, novels and short stories that deal with bereavement and mourning. Locating the modern aspect of Hardy's elegiac writing in this ambivalence and in the subversion of memory as unreliable, the book explores the textual moments at which Hardy challenges binary dichotomies such as forgetting vs. remembering, narcissism vs. unselfish commitment, grief vs. betrayal, the work of mourning vs. melancholia, presence vs. absence. The book's analysis allows us to relate Hardy's elegiac poetics, and particularly his description of the mourner as a writer, to shifting late-Victorian conceptualizations of death, memory, art, science and gender relations
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Benziman, Galia
- Dewey number
- 821.809
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR4757.P67
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hardy, Thomas
- Bereavement in literature
- Grief in literature
- Hardy, Thomas
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Literary studies: poetry & poets
- Bereavement in literature
- Grief in literature
- Label
- Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry : codes of bereavement, Galia Benziman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
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- txt
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- Contents
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- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Patterns of Mourning: Cultural and Theoretical Frameworks; Utilitarianism, Pain and the Anatomy Act; The Psychic Life of Grief: Mourning or Melancholia; Alternative Immortalities: The Scientific Discourses of Death; Literary Contexts: Mourning, Language and the Transition to Modern Elegy; Hardy's Codes of Bereavement: Revising the Elegiac Mode; Mourning Figurations, Textualising the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 2: "Hands Behind Hands": Seeing the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 3: "Spectres that Grieve": The Dead Speak; Works Cited
- Chapter 4: "Still Corporeally Imminent": Hardy's Revenants"It Was the Figure of a Woman": Retrieving the Dead in Desperate Remedies; Works Cited; Chapter 5: "For She Won't Know": Utilising the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 6: "I Do but the Phantom Retain": The Mistrust of Memory; The Dead as Image: Metaphorical Absorption; The Art of Bereavement: Memory as Text; Works Cited; Works Cited; Index
- Control code
- 1030303158
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- unknown
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- 1 online resource
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- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781137507136
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- unknown
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- computer
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- rdamedia
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- c
- Other control number
- 10.1057/978-1-137-50713-6
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- com.springer.onix.9781137507136
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- (OCoLC)1030303158
- Label
- Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry : codes of bereavement, Galia Benziman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Patterns of Mourning: Cultural and Theoretical Frameworks; Utilitarianism, Pain and the Anatomy Act; The Psychic Life of Grief: Mourning or Melancholia; Alternative Immortalities: The Scientific Discourses of Death; Literary Contexts: Mourning, Language and the Transition to Modern Elegy; Hardy's Codes of Bereavement: Revising the Elegiac Mode; Mourning Figurations, Textualising the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 2: "Hands Behind Hands": Seeing the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 3: "Spectres that Grieve": The Dead Speak; Works Cited
- Chapter 4: "Still Corporeally Imminent": Hardy's Revenants"It Was the Figure of a Woman": Retrieving the Dead in Desperate Remedies; Works Cited; Chapter 5: "For She Won't Know": Utilising the Dead; Works Cited; Chapter 6: "I Do but the Phantom Retain": The Mistrust of Memory; The Dead as Image: Metaphorical Absorption; The Art of Bereavement: Memory as Text; Works Cited; Works Cited; Index
- Control code
- 1030303158
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781137507136
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.1057/978-1-137-50713-6
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- com.springer.onix.9781137507136
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030303158
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