Dean Hardy's Poetic Vision in The Dynasts

The Diorama of a Dream
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6803-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor—the diorama of a dream—to interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major composition. She shows that the poem presents a model of the human mind. In that mind is enacted an event (the war with Napoleon) and, simultaneously, the watching of that event.

The author provides a reading of the poem in visual-dramatic terms, using the diorama stage as the vehicle for the poet's field of vision. She then defines various visual dimensions, the relationships between them, and the various ways in which they can be seen and understood. Her interpretation draws on Hardy's autobiography and critical essays.

Originally published in 1977.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii
CONTENTS, pg. ix
INTRODUCTION. THE DIORAMIC VISION, pg. 1
CHAPTER ONE. THE ANATOMIZING LIGHT, pg. 48
CHAPTER TWO. HUMAN OUTSHAPINGS OF THE WILL, pg. 118
CHAPTER THREE. INTERWEAVINGS OF THE WEB, pg. 198
CHAPTER FOUR. THE PERIPHERY OF VISION, pg. 236
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 299
INDEX, pg. 311