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Hardy's Poetic Vision in The Dynasts: The Diorama of a Dream
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Full Title:
Hardy's Poetic Vision in The Dynasts: The Diorama of a Dream
Contributors:
By (Author) Susan Dean
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Dewey:
822.8
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
330
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
624g
Description
Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major composition. She shows that the poem presents a model of the human mind. In that mind is enacted an event (the war with Napoleon) and, simultaneously, the watching of that event. The author provides a reading of the poem in visual-dram
