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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openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_2116 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.2116 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.2116 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/2116 2023-05-18T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gajw All rights reserved Hardy’s Palette and the Colours of Nature FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Hewitt, Andrew écocritique vert tradition Clare (John) Tennyson (Alfred) santé maladie ecocriticism green (colour) tradition Clare (John) Tennyson (Alfred) health illness 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. Cet article invite à une lecture intertextuelle de l’utilisation par Hardy du mot “vert” dans ses descriptions de la nature et développe l’idée que l’imaginaire anglais est tellement imprégné par le “vert” que toute référence à la couleur verte évoque nécessairement d’autres textes qui font de la nature le lieu de la santé, de la jeunesse et de la vigueur. Chez Hardy au contraire les différents verts sont à la fois un signe de maladie et de sa façon judicieuse de se démarquer de la tradition verte anglaise. Comme le prédisait Hardy dans The Return of the Native, une palette différente est désormais nécessaire pour peindre la nature dans l’état endommagé où elle se trouve. |
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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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