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Expression of Things: Themes in Thomas Hardy's Fiction and Poetry

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John Hughes explores Hardys claim that his art sought to intensify the expression of things through three main sections on music, the body, and voice. These offer intersecting and mutually informing discussions of the central drama of inexpression and expressivity in Hardys work, as it affects the various personae of the text, including the reader. Throughout, the book draws on themes in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell to reveal how Hardys fiction and poetry express and represent the affective and physical conditions of mind, and their conflicts with social fictions of identity. The first main section on music incorporates three chapters that examine how Hardys writing stages musical experience as an expression of human desire and individuality at odds with the constraints of rationality, Victorian fiction form, and social convention. Intricate and extensive readings are linked also to larger contextual and theoretical issues in order to show how music as a theme
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Autorius: John Hughes
Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press
Išleidimo metai: 2017
Knygos puslapių skaičius: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845198121
Formatas: 8.8 x 1 x 6.2 inches. Knyga kietu viršeliu
Kalba: Anglų

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