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  title info:
    title: Thomas Hardy's Elegiac Prose and Poetry
    sub title: Codes of Bereavement
  name:
    name part: Benziman, Galia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 173 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Hardy, as argued here, is dialectically implicated in the very cultural and psychological amnesia that he resists, as her book demonstrates by expanding the corpus of study beyond the spousal elegies (the "Poems of 1912-1913") to include a wide variety of poems, novels and short stories that deal with bereavement and mourning. Locating the modern aspect of Hardy's elegiac writing in this ambivalence and in the subversion of memory as unreliable, the book explores the textual moments at which Hardy challenges binary dichotomies such as forgetting vs. remembering, narcissism vs. unselfish commitment, grief vs. betrayal, the work of mourning vs. melancholia, presence vs. absence. The book's analysis allows us to relate Hardy's elegiac poetics, and particularly his description of the mourner as a writer, to shifting late-Victorian conceptualizations of death, memory, art, science and gender relations.
  table of contents: 1. Elegy, Discourses of Grieving, and Figuring the Dead -- 2. "Hands behind hands": Seeing the Dead -- 3. "Spectres that grieve": The Dead Speak -- 4. "Still corporeally imminent": Hardy's revenants -- 5. "For she won't know": Utilizing the dead -- 6. "I do but the phantom retain": The mistrust of memory.
  note: by Galia Benziman.
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Poetry and Poetics
  classification: PN1010-1551
  classification: 809.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781137507136
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50713-6
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    record creation date: 180328
    record change date: 20191220130028.0
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