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1999
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Pessimisme ; ironie ; mutabilité ; amour ; pièges ; art pictural ; réalité profonde ; métaphysique .Sujets proches
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Catherine Persyn, « Etude d'un tout (The Woodlanders de Thomas Hardy) à partir d'un fragment », Caliban, ID : 10.3406/calib.1999.1376
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The present paper is a reading of Thomas Hardy's novel, The Woodlanders, approached from the vantage-point of a memorable passage. The close, «organic » link that will almost invariably be found between any given «part» and the «whole» to which it belongs, is thrown into light here thanks to numerous cross-references. The passage is also analysed as a microcosm mirroring both the themes and the main sequences of the novel, and as an exemplar of the author's «literary pictorialism.» The profound pessimism which is the hallmark of Hardy is dwelt upon but also shown to be balanced— and possibly, to a certain extent, belied— by his acute sense of the beauty and mystery of the world.