Hardy Deconstructing Hardy

A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Poetry

Nilüfer Özgür

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English

Routledge
17 December 2019

Poetry; Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked—a Derridean, Deconstructive reading of Hardy‘s poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy, this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism.

While Hardy is not conventionally considered a Modernist poet, he shares with Modernists an element that can be referred to as the linguistic crisis by which they try to get over the sense of anxiety against the backdrop of a chaotic world and problematized language. The forerunner of Deconstructionism, Derrida, exposes a long established history of logocentric thinking, which has continually been moving between binary oppositions and Platonic dualities. Derrida simply puts forward the idea that there is no logos, no origin, and no centre of truth. The centre is always somewhere else; he identifies this as a ―free play of signifiers.‖ Consequently, the anxiety of the poet with modern sensibility to find a point of reference inevitably results in a ―crisis of representation,‖ or, in a problematic relation between language and truth, the signifier and the signified. This crisis can be observed in Hardy‘s poetry, too. For this purpose, this research focuses on four key concepts in Hardy‘s poetry that expose this problematic relationship between language and truth: his agnosticism, his concept of the self, his language and concept of structure, and his concept of time and temporality. These aspects are explored in the light of Derrida‘s Deconstructionism with reference to poems by Hardy which heralded the Modernist crisis of representation.

This text will fulfill the function of reconciling theory with practice and become the manifestation of the importance of Poststructuralist criticism.

By: Nilüfer Özgür
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367891657
ISBN 10: 0367891654
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 17 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Entry

Dr. Nilüfer Özgür was born in Yonkovo, Bulgaria. In 1989, she and her family emigrated to Turkey. She attended Hacettepe University, where she studied American culture and literature. She received her PhD from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Foreign Language Education, English Literature Programme. She currently serves as a lecturer at Gazi Faculty of Education, Division of English Language Education , Ankara, Turkey.