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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... seemed to look out of its countenance . It had a lonely face , suggesting tragical possibilities . ( 55 ) Hardy's mythological personification of Egdon Heath achieves a narrative depth similar to Tylor's animism ; the figurative trope ...
... seemed to look out of its countenance . It had a lonely face , suggesting tragical possibilities . ( 55 ) Hardy's mythological personification of Egdon Heath achieves a narrative depth similar to Tylor's animism ; the figurative trope ...
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... seemed to me , like the mistake of a novelist who should prefix a summary of the plot to his novel . ( quoted in Fraser , Making 54 ) " The Golden Bough , " writes Robert Fraser , “ is a novel of the intellect ; suspense is of its ...
... seemed to me , like the mistake of a novelist who should prefix a summary of the plot to his novel . ( quoted in Fraser , Making 54 ) " The Golden Bough , " writes Robert Fraser , “ is a novel of the intellect ; suspense is of its ...
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... seemed to stretch like the channelings in a piece of new corduroy , lending a meanly utilitarian air to the expanse , taking away its gradations , and depriv- ing it of all history beyond that of the few recent months , though to every ...
... seemed to stretch like the channelings in a piece of new corduroy , lending a meanly utilitarian air to the expanse , taking away its gradations , and depriv- ing it of all history beyond that of the few recent months , though to every ...
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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