Thomas Hardy's 'Studies, Specimens &c.' Notebook (Hardcover)

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994

0198117574 / 9780198117575

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Hardcover. Thomas Hardy's Studies, Specimens &c. notebook stands almost alone as a witness to his exertions and aspirations of the 1860s, when he was already in his middle twenties but still working in London as an architectual assistant and only tentatively feeling his way towards as yet dimly glimpsed possibilities of literary expression and employment. Because so little documentation of any kind has survived for this early period of his life and work, thenotebook is of extraordinary interest as containing detailed evidence of the untutored deliberateness with which Hardy was seeking to provide himself with a poetic background, educate himself in poetic techniques, andinitiate a process from which he could perhaps emerge as a practising, even a publishing, poet. In private hands until very recently, and seen by only a very few scholars, Studies, Specimens &c.' dates from 1865-68, is entirely in Hardy's own hand, and consists of eighty-eight closely written pages of working memoranda, and quotations from other poets - mostly extracts a few words long in which underlining has been used to highlight individual images and word-usages. Althoughno drafts of actual poems are present, there are numerous instances of Hardy's seeking to generate a poetic, and sometimes erotic, language and imagery out of materials (e.g., an architectual textbook) apparentlychosen precisley for their recalcitrance to such treatment.The edition itself seeks to reproduce typographically all essential features of the original document. The introductory material describes the notebook bibliographically, sets it in its biographical context, and discusses some of its more important technical features. Included in the extensive apparatus are textual notes, explications of Hardy's occasional quotations - indicating, in most instances, theeditions or actual volumes he certainly or probably used. Explanatory notes are provided for - among other things - some erased but now partly recoved memoranda of Hardy's that appear to have significantbiographical implications. A new edition of the manuscript in quasi-facsimile form, with full annotation of sources, allusions, and intentions, as far as they can be interpreted. The text demonstrates the authors' interest in other writers and illustrates the self-assigned exercises in vocabulary-building and poetic techniques used by Hardy to improve his poetic skills. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

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Título
Thomas Hardy's 'Studies, Specimens &c.' Notebook (Hardcover)
Autor
Thomas Hardy
Editorial
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Año de publicación
1994
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0198117574
ISBN 13
9780198117575

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