Hardy’s Humanity: “A Strange Respect for the Individual, an Extraordinary Respect”
This paper uses Deleuze’s reflections on Hardy’s writing to examine the sense of the latter’s humanity as it attaches itself to a compassionate celebration of the individual. Though scarce, Deleuze’s remarks on Hardy open the way for an exploration of how questions of identity, of the self and the s...
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2017
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper uses Deleuze’s reflections on Hardy’s writing to examine the sense of the latter’s humanity as it attaches itself to a compassionate celebration of the individual. Though scarce, Deleuze’s remarks on Hardy open the way for an exploration of how questions of identity, of the self and the subject are dealt with in Hardy’s poetry. Hardy’s humanity is here considered as a form of humanism expressed through the author’s sincere attachment to the living and the human, to the individual’s commonplace experiences of everyday life, but also in a wider perspective that offers universal sympathy – an altruism at the core of many war poems in particular. Ultimately, Hardy’s interest in the human scale allows the poet to convey through his verse the sense of a fragmented self, many illustrations of which can be found in the poet’s personal or introspective pieces. |
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