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Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology (Hardcover)
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Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology (Hardcover)
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Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology is the first
detailed exploration of Hardy's linguistic `awkwardness', a subject
that has long puzzled critics. Dennis Taylor's pioneering study
shows that Hardy's language must be understood as a distinctive
response to the philological and literary issues of his time.
Deeply influenced by the Victorian historical study of language,
Hardy deliberately incorporated into his own writing a sense of
language's recent and hidden history, its multiple stages and
classes, and its arbitrary motivations. Indeed, Taylor argues,
Hardy provides an example of how a writer `purifies the dialect of
the tribe' by inclusiveness, by heterogeniety, and by a sense of
history which distinguishes Hardy from a more ahistorical,
synchronic modernist aesthetic and which constitutes an ongoing
challenge to literary language. In what is the first major
treatment of a writer's relation to the Oxford English Dictionary,
the author also examines the influence on Hardy's language of the
founding and development in this period of the OED.
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