Hardy’s Palette and the Colours of Nature
This paper invites an intertextual reading of Hardy’s use of “green” in his descriptions of nature, arguing that the English imaginary is by now so steeped in “green” that any mention of the colour inevitably calls up other texts that write nature as the site of health, youth, and vigour. By contras...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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FATHOM
2023
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This paper invites an intertextual reading of Hardy’s use of “green” in his descriptions of nature, arguing that the English imaginary is by now so steeped in “green” that any mention of the colour inevitably calls up other texts that write nature as the site of health, youth, and vigour. By contrast Hardy’s greens are both a sign of ill health in nature and of his judicious distancing of himself from the English green tradition. As Hardy predicted in The Return of the Native, a different palette is now needed to paint nature in its damaged state. |
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