A source for Thomas Hardy's poem The Aerolite is the scientific theory of panspermia. Hardy's The Aerolite was published undated in his 1925 miscellaneous collection of old, new, and revised poems ...Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles. Hardy suggests that in the depths of time an aerolite, a stony meteorite, carried the germ of Consciousness, germ being seed, from another planet to the earth.
An irrepressibly violent past anchors each of these texts-the torturous criminal code of the Ancien Regime and the subsequent Reign of Terror of the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities; the ...barely explained murder of a Cavalier poet, shot in the back without warning, in "Oke of Okehurst"; the marauding violence of medieval Knights Templar, "fierce and wicked men . . . the scourge of their time" (39) in "Man-Size in Marble"; and the history of the Sulaco silver mine, initially dug by enslaved people in the days of Spanish colonialism, in Nostromo. In one striking image, she describes Dickens's depiction of the French Revolution "as not only inevitable but also just," a "reversal of a crime against nature-as when a rubber band is stretched too far and snaps back on the thumb that stretched it" (426). Laura, the narrator's wife in "Man-Size in Marble," hasn't deliberately sought out this kind of contact with the past, but as a result of her husband's naive positivism, she ends up the victim of the marble effigies of the Knights Templar, who stalk the village on the night of All Hallows' Eve. The legend of the past-that the poet Christopher Lovelock was killed in an apparently unprovoked attack by Nicholas and Alice Oke in the 1620s-is mirrored in the 1880s when present-day Alice Oke's husband kills her and himself in a murder-suicide that also purports to be an attack on the ghost of Lovelock.
The "madder stain" imprinted on Tess d'Urberville's arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy's fiction. This book attempts to approach that unknowable kernel of jouissance by using Lacan's ...concepts of object-gaze and object-voice--sometimes revisited by Zizek.
140th anniversary of the publication of A Pair of Blue Eyes Centenary of Hardy's return to Cornwall in March 1913 Buckator, cliff, St Juliot s So many anniversaries! On Friday morning Tony Fincham ...and Sally Searle led a 7-mile walk through the landscape associated with A Pair of Blue Eyes, including Windy Beak and Beeny Cliff, first passing through fields with the Old Rectory's organically reared pigs and sheep. At 10.00am on Saturday, the sun shone so brightly in the conservatory (site of the 'frozen greenhouse'), that images on the screen for Dr Jane Thomas's lecture were invisible, and Christopher Reid graciously agreed to give his poetry reading and lecture first.
Hardy's Deep Discordance Spitzer-Hanks, D. T.
English studies,
11/17/2017, Letnik:
98, Številka:
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While Thomas Hardy is acknowledged as a major author of the Victorian period, his poetry is less critically regarded than his novels, and of his poetic subjects, few have been given less attention ...than animals. Despite this, Hardy's animal poetry is among his best known and most frequently anthologised, and forms an important part of his poetic corpus. This essay argues that Hardy's animal poetics require critical attention in part because they have yet to receive it and, in addition, because Hardy's animal poetics gently force the reader to reckon with discursive traditions that privilege humanity over animality to the detriment of both. Through an analysis of five animal poems this essay suggests that both the image of "good little Thomas Hardy", as James famously called him, and the more typical view of Hardy as a misanthropic pessimist miss Hardy's rhetorical use of "deep discordancy" to promote an emergent post-Darwinian posthumanism.
A critical review of Nawal El Saadawi's novels indicate the centrality of the feminine experience-foregrounding the extent to which women's oppression and exploitation are legitimized by race, class, ...religion, and the patriarchal system in Africa, how her novels attempt a socialist restructuring of the society, and the extent to which she undermines patriarchal power in heterosexual practices. While these remain symptomatic of El Saadawi's novels, it is important to reconsider the role of her male characters and the ways in which their representations speak to futurity. This is important because although various scholars expose the rot in the world of El Saadawi's novels-stressing the male chauvinism factor-there is also the need to unearth the anticipatory impulses that are realized through masculine representations and spatial dynamics. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnival, the objective of this paper is to examine how El Saadawi reimagines the future nation through masculine representations, spatiality, and futurity.
A meticulously prepared and annotated edition of a previously unpublished and almost unknown Hardy notebook, one of the very few to have survived. Biographically significant because of its ...preservation of personal notes from old pocket-books subsequently destroyed, 'Poetical Matter' is a unique late working notebook devoted to verse.
NOTES FROM THE CHAIR LANGE, HELEN
Thomas Hardy journal,
10/2016, Letnik:
32
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See for example an article from the Guardian newspaper which features as a tweet on the home page of our website, and an article in the September edition of the renowned Apollo art history magazine, ...written by the editor, Thomas Marks, and entitled 'Why we should take Thomas Hardy seriously as an Architect'. https://campaign.justgiving.com/charity/new-windsorpcc/thomashardy altarpiece In the Summer Journal I also wrote about another Hardy site, that of the White Hart Inn. Before the unveiling Andrew Sinclair, Operations Director at Metis Homes, spoke about the development, now named Eastgate, appropriately for its location on the boundary of the Roman town. Peter Mann, Chairman of the Dorchester Civic Society and until this summer a member of our Council of Management, then spoke about the history of the site, and finally I spoke about the Hardy connections and read the first few paragraphs of 'A Few Crusted Characters', which describe the busy fore-court of the Inn, the carriers, their patrons and the errand boys.
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