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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... ancient stone monolith onto which has been carved the rude figure of a hand : “ On a lonely table - land above the Vale of Blackmore , between High - Stoy and Bubb - Down Hills , and commanding in clear weather a view that extends from ...
... ancient stone monolith onto which has been carved the rude figure of a hand : “ On a lonely table - land above the Vale of Blackmore , between High - Stoy and Bubb - Down Hills , and commanding in clear weather a view that extends from ...
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... ancient records where the past is all obliterated , and the thatched and dormered houses replaced by modern cottages . In choosing North Wessex as the scene of a novel Mr. Hardy willfully deprives himself of a great element of his ...
... ancient records where the past is all obliterated , and the thatched and dormered houses replaced by modern cottages . In choosing North Wessex as the scene of a novel Mr. Hardy willfully deprives himself of a great element of his ...
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... ancient harvest - days , of spoken words and of sturdy deeds . Every inch of ground had been the site , first or last , of energy , gaiety , horseplay , bickerings , weariness . Groups of gleaners had squatted in the sun on every square ...
... ancient harvest - days , of spoken words and of sturdy deeds . Every inch of ground had been the site , first or last , of energy , gaiety , horseplay , bickerings , weariness . Groups of gleaners had squatted in the sun on every square ...
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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