The article studies the ambivalent, if not antithetical, qualities of glass – both a substance and a transparent medium – in Thomas Hardy’s poems. In these, the looking glass does not send back the exact image of the human subject looking at it, but series of fleeting, evanescent images through which the past is conjured up and the future intuited. Reflected images travel in space and time, with a strange capacity of penetration and subversion: subject and object, seer and seen, the real and the virtual, the visible and the invisible are tossed together, until all that is left is the fundamental ontological question: “who am I?” In Hardy’s mirrors, the beholder undergoes a deeply troubling anti-narcissistic experience, which only inspires h...
The following utterance is an exploration into the interactive space of glass and the disparity foun...
This paper uses Deleuze’s reflections on Hardy’s writing to examine the sense of the latter’s humani...
Alluding to the Theatrum Catoptricum described by Athanasius Kircher in Ars Magna Lucis at Umbrae (1...
International audienceThe article studies the ambivalent, if not antithetical, qualities of glass – ...
This paper considers the clinical terms used by Thomas Hardy to build a model of misvision and misse...
This article aims at defining Hardy’s position on Materialism and Idealism as it informs the relatio...
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...
In computer and cell phone screens, as in 19th-century architecture, glass employs a frame to show a...
In Hardy’s poetry, letters, notes and telegrams are most commonly linked to the experience of disapp...
At the end of his career as a novelist, Hardy wrote dark stories, tragedies. The equivocal quality o...
Much of Bernard Noël's poetry develops out of phenomenological processes of reflection and inversion...
After transparency takes a critical position regarding the conceptualization of glass in modern and ...
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter by Routledge in Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Pra...
Thomas Hardy’s poetry is haunted by the past. Objects become the uncanny trace of the spectral, like...
The following utterance is an exploration into the interactive space of glass and the disparity foun...
This paper uses Deleuze’s reflections on Hardy’s writing to examine the sense of the latter’s humani...
Alluding to the Theatrum Catoptricum described by Athanasius Kircher in Ars Magna Lucis at Umbrae (1...
International audienceThe article studies the ambivalent, if not antithetical, qualities of glass – ...
This paper considers the clinical terms used by Thomas Hardy to build a model of misvision and misse...
This article aims at defining Hardy’s position on Materialism and Idealism as it informs the relatio...
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...
In computer and cell phone screens, as in 19th-century architecture, glass employs a frame to show a...
In Hardy’s poetry, letters, notes and telegrams are most commonly linked to the experience of disapp...
At the end of his career as a novelist, Hardy wrote dark stories, tragedies. The equivocal quality o...
Much of Bernard Noël's poetry develops out of phenomenological processes of reflection and inversion...
After transparency takes a critical position regarding the conceptualization of glass in modern and ...
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter by Routledge in Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Pra...
Thomas Hardy’s poetry is haunted by the past. Objects become the uncanny trace of the spectral, like...
The following utterance is an exploration into the interactive space of glass and the disparity foun...
This paper uses Deleuze’s reflections on Hardy’s writing to examine the sense of the latter’s humani...
Alluding to the Theatrum Catoptricum described by Athanasius Kircher in Ars Magna Lucis at Umbrae (1...