Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition : : The One and the Many in The Dynasts / / Gordon Glen Wickens.
In this original and scrupulously researched book, G. Glen Wickens offers a new reading of a work which is often ignored by critics and students of Victorian literature, Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts. Wickens explores the monistic viewpoint of The Dynasts through reference to 19th and early 20th p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: RelocatingiTheDynasts
- 1. Hardy's Longest Novel and the Monistic Theory of the Universe
- 2. The Will's Official Spirit
- 3. Unconscious or Superconscious?
- 4. Poetry and Prose
- 5. A Carnivalesque Picture of Carnival
- 6. Heroism, Speech Zones, and Genres
- 7. The Crowds of War
- 8. Chronotopes and the Death-Birth of a World
- Conclusion: Hardy and Bakhtin
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index