The expression of things : themes in Thomas Hardy's fiction and poetry /
Hughes, John,1957-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction I: "Expression" II: "No harmonious philosophy" music -- "Souls unreconciled to life": Hardy and music -- "Tune and thought": the uses of music in Hardy's poetry -- "Music and context": Hardy's poetry and fiction emotion -- "A strange respect for the individual": Gilles Deleuze and Hardy the novelist -- "What I see in their faces": facial inspiration in Hardy's fiction voice -- "Metre and context": Hardy's "neutral tones" -- "Metre and mourning": "The going" and poems of 1912-13 -- "Hardy's two voices": "The oxen", metre and belief.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Music in literature.
Human body in literature.
Voice in literature.
Human body in literature.
Music in literature.
Voice in literature.