The Abyss, the Image and the Turn: Writing Desire in Three Poems by Thomas Hardy
This essay examines the relationship between the desiring subject, the power of the gaze and the writing process. “Desire” is understood as “the energy of the human spirit as it struggles for articulation and recognition against, on the one hand, the impossible and unspeakable nature of the Real and...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_855 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.855 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.855 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/855 2018-04-23T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gaj5 All rights reserved The Abyss, the Image and the Turn: Writing Desire in Three Poems by Thomas Hardy FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Thomas, Jane écriture désir regard voix sujet élégie retournement Orphée writing desire gaze voice subject elegy turn Orpheus This essay examines the relationship between the desiring subject, the power of the gaze and the writing process. “Desire” is understood as “the energy of the human spirit as it struggles for articulation and recognition against, on the one hand, the impossible and unspeakable nature of the Real and, on the other, the productive constraints of language” (Thomas 2). The “gaze” is defined here as the “Orphic turn” away from its object: not exactly the “look awry” (askew or to one side) but the deliberate turn away from the object of desire in order to draw or lead it out of the realm of the unspeakable and into the compromised arena of language. The “desiring subject” is Orpheus, the spirit of the artist writer, embodied in the texts of Hardy’s elegiac poems, in the form of their various first-person narrative “voices”: what might be called (in a nod to J. B. Bullen) the “Expressive I”. The essay takes as test cases three poems by Hardy: “Where the Picnic Was”; “The Voice” and “The Shadow on the Stone”. Cet article se propose d’étudier la relation entre le sujet désirant, le pouvoir du regard et le procédé d’écriture. Le « désir » s’entend ici au sens de « l’énergie de l’esprit humain dans sa lutte pour l’expression et la reconnaissance face, d’une part, à l’impossible et indicible nature du Réel et, d’autre part, aux contraintes productives du langage » (Thomas 2). Le « regard » est quant à lui défini comme le « retournement orphique » qui l’éloigne de son objet : il ne s’agit pas véritablement d’un « regard détourné » (de travers ou de côté) mais plutôt d’un détour délibéré qui éloigne de l’objet du désir afin de l’extraire du domaine de l’indicible pour le faire entrer dans l’espace compromis du langage. Le « sujet désirant » est Orphée, esprit de l’écrivain artiste présent dans le texte des poèmes élégiaques de Hardy sous la forme des diverses « voix » narratives de la première personne : ce que l’on pourrait nommer (en référence à J. B. Bullen) « the Expressive I ». Trois poèmes de Hardy viennent illustrer cette étude : “Where the Picnic Was”, “The Voice” et “The Shadow on the Stone”. |
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This essay examines the relationship between the desiring subject, the power of the gaze and the writing process. “Desire” is understood as “the energy of the human spirit as it struggles for articulation and recognition against, on the one hand, the impossible and unspeakable nature of the Real and, on the other, the productive constraints of language” (Thomas 2). The “gaze” is defined here as the “Orphic turn” away from its object: not exactly the “look awry” (askew or to one side) but the deliberate turn away from the object of desire in order to draw or lead it out of the realm of the unspeakable and into the compromised arena of language. The “desiring subject” is Orpheus, the spirit of the artist writer, embodied in the texts of Hardy’s elegiac poems, in the form of their various first-person narrative “voices”: what might be called (in a nod to J. B. Bullen) the “Expressive I”. The essay takes as test cases three poems by Hardy: “Where the Picnic Was”; “The Voice” and “The Shadow on the Stone”. |
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