ISLAND SOLITUDES - SELFHOOD AND OTHERNESS IN THE POETRY OF MATTHEW ARNOLD AND THOMAS HARDY

Reinforcing the view that the Victorian poetic stance is intimately and inextricably connected with the sphere of ideas, this paper provides an examination of a selection of representative titles by Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, in an attempt to highlight the similarities and differences regardin...

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Published in:British and American studies : B.A.S Vol. 25; no. 25; pp. 71 - 80
Main Author: More, Octavian
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Timisoara Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara 2019
University of the West Timisoara Publishing House Diacritic Timisoara
West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Letters, History and Theology
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Agnosticism
Allusion
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
Asceticism
British & Irish literature
English literature
Fate
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
Language and Literature Studies
Literary canon
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary influences
Modern literature
Modernism
Otherness
Personhood
Poetry
Poets
Studies of Literature
Victorian period
Writers
Self
distancing
experience
Matthew Arnold
the Other
Thomas Hardy
ISSN:1224-3086, 2457-7715
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Summary:Reinforcing the view that the Victorian poetic stance is intimately and inextricably connected with the sphere of ideas, this paper provides an examination of a selection of representative titles by Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, in an attempt to highlight the similarities and differences regarding the poets’ treatment of the seminal dialectic between selfhood and otherness, perception and experience, engagement and ascetic distancing.
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ISSN:1224-3086
2457-7715