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1 online resource (xix, 255 pages) |
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Relocating The Dynasts -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S |
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| Summary |
"In this 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 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century philosophical writings which have never before been applied to Hardy's writing. Using insights derived from the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin - in particular his concept of carnival - Wickens also counters the usual view of The Dynasts as failed epic or tragedy, and instead situates the work as a novel within the serio-comical genres. In doing so, he brings out new, violent implications to Bakhtin's theory of laughter and carnival." "Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition is the first book-length study of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts since 1977. It will be of interest to Hardy scholars, critics of Bakhtin, and readers interested in monist philosophy or nineteenth-century history."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Dynasts
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Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975 |
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Hardy, Thomas. Dynasts. |
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Dynasts (Hardy, Thomas) fast |
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Carnival in literature.
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Monism in literature.
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Carnival in literature -- Congresses
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Carnival in literature
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Monism in literature
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Monismus
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Karneval
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442682634 |
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1442682639 |
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1282033905 |
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9781282033900 |
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9786612033902 |
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6612033908 |
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