This paper considers the clinical terms used by Thomas Hardy to build a model of misvision and missed opportunity. The glasses laid on the landscape in one of Hardy’s iconic drawings sem to materialize the object-gaze, and may also be read as a representation of his appropriation of the medical gaze. He transposes ophtalmological conditions (the cataract, gutta serena) or technological tools (X-Rays) to engage with the corporeal, as well as mental, nature of desire and its misdirections, or to explore the haunting ability to strip the present, and see the past with its compelling hallucinatory presence. Drawing upon the readings of J. Hillis Miller, Linda M. Shires and Rosemarie Morgan, as well as Annie Ramel, Laurence Estanove and Isabelle...
This article aims at defining Hardy’s position on Materialism and Idealism as it informs the relatio...
Through the employment of the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘The Self-Unseeing’ this paper se...
The Study of Thomas Hardy is one of the most misunderstood Lawrencian works, but at the same time it...
The eye in Thomas Hardy’s fiction is often felt as a menace, like the “oval pond” in Far from the Ma...
“In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury” (Illustrations 154) Hardy’s famous drawing of a pair of glasses sup...
The article studies the ambivalent, if not antithetical, qualities of glass – both a substance and a...
At the end of his career as a novelist, Hardy wrote dark stories, tragedies. The equivocal quality o...
This thesis offers a narratorial and textual examination of the tragic in Hardy’s fiction and uncove...
This paper approaches the subject of Hardy as a thinker of humanity through his response to what was...
Starting from J. Hillis Miller’s work on distance and desire as two of the “outlining threads” of Ha...
“Impression” is an eminently Hardyesque word which keeps occurring in the author’s fictional texts a...
This essay examines the relationship between the desiring subject, the power of the gaze and the wri...
Thomas Hardy’s third novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes, began appearing in serial form in September 1872; C...
My thesis is based on the characteristics of Hardy's pictorial art. I believe that his treatment of ...
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hardy’s reading included articles and reviews publi...
This article aims at defining Hardy’s position on Materialism and Idealism as it informs the relatio...
Through the employment of the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘The Self-Unseeing’ this paper se...
The Study of Thomas Hardy is one of the most misunderstood Lawrencian works, but at the same time it...
The eye in Thomas Hardy’s fiction is often felt as a menace, like the “oval pond” in Far from the Ma...
“In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury” (Illustrations 154) Hardy’s famous drawing of a pair of glasses sup...
The article studies the ambivalent, if not antithetical, qualities of glass – both a substance and a...
At the end of his career as a novelist, Hardy wrote dark stories, tragedies. The equivocal quality o...
This thesis offers a narratorial and textual examination of the tragic in Hardy’s fiction and uncove...
This paper approaches the subject of Hardy as a thinker of humanity through his response to what was...
Starting from J. Hillis Miller’s work on distance and desire as two of the “outlining threads” of Ha...
“Impression” is an eminently Hardyesque word which keeps occurring in the author’s fictional texts a...
This essay examines the relationship between the desiring subject, the power of the gaze and the wri...
Thomas Hardy’s third novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes, began appearing in serial form in September 1872; C...
My thesis is based on the characteristics of Hardy's pictorial art. I believe that his treatment of ...
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hardy’s reading included articles and reviews publi...
This article aims at defining Hardy’s position on Materialism and Idealism as it informs the relatio...
Through the employment of the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘The Self-Unseeing’ this paper se...
The Study of Thomas Hardy is one of the most misunderstood Lawrencian works, but at the same time it...