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Thomas Hardy and Desire - Conceptions of the Self (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,922
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Thomas Hardy and Desire - Conceptions of the Self (Hardcover): Jane Thomas

Thomas Hardy and Desire - Conceptions of the Self (Hardcover)

Jane Thomas

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At the center of Hardy's aesthetic practice is the recognition of desire as a necessary and fundamental condition of human existence. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the world and the systems in which their sense of self is expressed and constituted. Yet his work also explores the positive, dynamic and productive dimension of desire. Structured around the themes of home and homelessness; eroticism; Poor Men, Ladies and social aspiration; the transgressivity of cross dressing; the creation of "sapphic spaces;" aesthetic desire and its fulfilment in the achieved work of art, Thomas Hardy and Desire demonstrates Hardy's commitment, as an artist in pursuit of "a way to the better," to exploring how the energy of desire pushes beyond the boundaries of class, sexuality, gender and even language itself to bring new ways of being and doing into the realm of knowledge.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: Jane Thomas
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-22463-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN: 0-230-22463-6
Barcode: 9780230224636

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