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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... suggests that it is the sympathetic imag- ination that connects the artist and the scientist , the ability , for example , to see the ghost of a long departed child in the face of a poor and haggard woman . “ To see in half and quarter ...
... suggests that it is the sympathetic imag- ination that connects the artist and the scientist , the ability , for example , to see the ghost of a long departed child in the face of a poor and haggard woman . “ To see in half and quarter ...
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... suggests Hardy's treatment of the natur- al world in The Return of the Native : To the lower tribes of man , sun and stars , trees and rivers , winds and clouds become ani- mate creatures , leading lives conformed to human or animal ...
... suggests Hardy's treatment of the natur- al world in The Return of the Native : To the lower tribes of man , sun and stars , trees and rivers , winds and clouds become ani- mate creatures , leading lives conformed to human or animal ...
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... suggesting that the most important benefit the study of anthropol- ogy might yield would be an increased understanding of ... suggests that prose fiction , like Tylor's ethnography , can function to " bridge the gap " between " laws and ...
... suggesting that the most important benefit the study of anthropol- ogy might yield would be an increased understanding of ... suggests that prose fiction , like Tylor's ethnography , can function to " bridge the gap " between " laws and ...
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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