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- Title
Phantoms and Fictional Persons: Hardy's Phenomenology of Loss.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
HARDY, Thomas, 1840-1928; ENGLISH poetry; LITERARY criticism; HAUNTER, The (Poem : Hardy); HAUNTING Fingers, The (Poem); MY Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound (Poem : Hardy); HARDY, Emma; ENDINGS (Literature); CLOSURE (Rhetoric); ELEGIAC poetry; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 2017, Vol 59, Issue 3, p399
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.2979/victorianstudies.59.3.03