« What [things] record in colour and cast » : l’empreinte de l’affect et la trace poétique chez Thomas Hardy
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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.s2e8ph
- isbn: 9782878544084
- eisbn: 9782878548600
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Catherine Lanone, « « What [things] record in colour and cast » : l’empreinte de l’affect et la trace poétique chez Thomas Hardy », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.s2e8ph
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Thomas Hardy’s poetry is haunted by the past. Objects become the uncanny trace of the spectral, like the tombstone which the mournful rain defaces, the hollowed “footworn” floor, the furniture polished by invisible hands receding in a mirror, or the photograph which burns and destroys a woman’s long-lost body. Places enshrine loss, tracing and mapping absence, shadowing the contours of a vanished presence, which vivid, plastic memory may suddenly resurrect, in a flitting glimpse or piercing sensation which instantly dissolves. Ultimately, the poem itself becomes the shrine of the past, haunted by the anxiety of influence. Stylistic devices like repetitions and echoes, dashes, alliterations or broken rhythm, inscribe within the poem this play on presence and absence, distance and proximity. The poem becomes a liminal space, hovering on the threshold of modem poetry, eluding the stable identity and location of Victorian poetry yet shying from deconstruction, moving between past and present, inside and outside, anguish and relative resignation, endowing words and things with a spectral life of their own.