Phantoms and Fictional Persons: Hardy's Phenomenology of Loss

The end of a narrative, which has long been recognized as a problem for literary structure, poses a problem for readers as well. In the absence of conventional methods for examining this dimension of literary experience, this essay approaches Thomas Hardy's late lyrics as a gloss on the aesthetic and affective consequences of coming to the end of a novel. Hardy's intricate accounts of directing one-sided attention toward insensible objects of desire, I argue, attune us to the pathos of thinking about fictional persons that continue to dwell in our minds but exist nowhere in the actual world.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Auyoung, Elaine

Đề mục:

Novels

Nhà xuất bản:

Indiana University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Spring 2017

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Nguồn gốc:

Victorian studies, Volume 59, Number 3, Spring 2017, Pages 399-408

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ISSN 0042-5222

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Phantoms and Fictional Persons: Hardy's Phenomenology of Loss

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