Representations of Culture: Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian AnthropologyPeter Lang, 2007 - 154 páginas Representations of Culture places Thomas Hardy's Wessex - his fictional representation of rural England - within the framework of anthropology, an emergent discipline at the time. Informed by both intellectual biography and close textual readings, this book argues that Hardy's lifelong interests in folklore, customs, local history, myth, archaeology, and communal narrative history represent the most «modern» (rather than simply traditional) aspect of his thinking - the ways in which anthropological viewpoints associated with Tylor, Lang, and Frazer shaped his understanding and representation of Wessex. |
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... Greek myth , and hence Greek tragedy itself , was born in a primi- tive mythopoetic age , “ the peculiar creation of country folk of a high impress- ibility , dreaming over their work in spring or autumn , half consciously touched by a ...
... Greek myth , and hence Greek tragedy itself , was born in a primi- tive mythopoetic age , “ the peculiar creation of country folk of a high impress- ibility , dreaming over their work in spring or autumn , half consciously touched by a ...
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... Greek myth closely parallel the rural nar- ratives that Hardy had already used to great effect in Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd : Demeter haunts the fields of spring , when the young lambs are dropped ; she ...
... Greek myth closely parallel the rural nar- ratives that Hardy had already used to great effect in Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd : Demeter haunts the fields of spring , when the young lambs are dropped ; she ...
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... Greek religious poetry in general , of the poetry of all religions . ( 151 ) In establishing a direct connection between the literature of classical Greece and its origins in the primitive ritual and animistic worldview of country folk ...
... Greek religious poetry in general , of the poetry of all religions . ( 151 ) In establishing a direct connection between the literature of classical Greece and its origins in the primitive ritual and animistic worldview of country folk ...
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Beginnings Descriptions of Local Culture | 63 |
An Experiment in Tragic Form Anthropological | 97 |
Beyond Myth The Presence of the Past | 121 |
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Representations of Culture: Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian Anthropology Michael A. Zeitler Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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ancient animism anthropological argued associations become beginning body called celebrations century chapter character Clodd collective connection contemporary continued critical culture customs dance death described Dorset early Egdon England evidence example experience expression face fiction fire folklore Frazer gives Golden Bough Greek Greenwood Tree hand Hardy's heath human ideas importance individual intellectual interest John Jude knowledge later living look marriage material meaning memory mind moral myth narrative Native natural notes novels objects observation origin past play plot possible present primitive Public reference remain representation represented Return Review ritual rural scene scientific seasonal seemed sense shared similar social society spirit story structure suggests symbolic tell Tess theories things Thomas Hardy thought throughout tion traditional tragedy tragic trees turn Tylor universe village Voice Wessex whole writes young