國立虎尾科技大學 |

Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry = codes of bereavement /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry/ by Galia Benziman.
Reminder of title:	codes of bereavement /
Author:	Benziman, Galia.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2018.,
Description:	vii, 173 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Bereavement in literature. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50713-6
ISBN:	9781137507136

Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry = codes of bereavement /
Benziman, Galia.

Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetrycodes of bereavement /[electronic resource] :by Galia Benziman. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2018. - vii, 173 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781137507136

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-50713-6doiSubjects--Personal Names:

803682
Hardy, Thomas,
1840-1928.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1140344
Bereavement in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR4757.P67 / B469 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 821.809

Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry = codes of bereavement /
LDR:02483nam a2200313 a 4500 001 925163
003 DE-He213
005 20181008150708.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 190625s2018 enk s 0 eng d
020 $a 9781137507136 $q (electronic bk.)
020 $a 9781137507129 $q (paper)
024 7 $a 10.1057/978-1-137-50713-6 $2 doi
035 $a 978-1-137-50713-6
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a PR4757.P67 $b B469 2018
072 7 $a DSC $2 bicssc
072 7 $a LIT014000 $2 bisacsh
082 0 4 $a 821.809 $2 23
090 $a PR4757.P67 $b B479 2018
100 1 $a Benziman, Galia. $3 1202665
245 1 0 $a Thomas Hardy's elegiac prose and poetry $h [electronic resource] : $b codes of bereavement / $c by Galia Benziman.
260 $a London : $c 2018. $b Palgrave Macmillan UK : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
300 $a vii, 173 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
505 0 $a 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.
520 $a 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.
600 1 0 $a Hardy, Thomas, $d 1840-1928. $3 803682
650 0 $a Bereavement in literature. $3 1140344
650 0 $a Grief in literature. $3 560563
650 1 4 $a Literature. $3 557269
650 2 4 $a Poetry and Poetics. $3 1104872
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
856 4 0 $u http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50713-6
950 $a Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (Springer-41173)