« I am content with tentativeness from day to day » : Thomas Hardy et le parti pris poétique du tâtonnement

In his notebooks and prefaces, Thomas Hardy dwells heavily on the elusive, non methodical quality of his writing, pointing at the absence of any philosophical coherence in his work. This deliberate artistic preference for uncertainty is visible in the poet’s hesitant stances, wavering between harsh...

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Main Author: Laurence Estanove
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2010-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/3104