Hardy Deconstructing Hardy: A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Poetry

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Thomas Hardy as a Threshold Poet and Precursor of Modernism in Poetry
	1.1 Aim and Scope
	1.2 The Problem of the Sign
	1.3 Modernist Poetry and Its Contradictory Nature
	1.4 Hardy’s Modernism
	1.5 Hardy and Deconstructionist Criticism
	1.6 The “Non-Mimetic” Nature of Hardy’s Poetry
2 Thomas Hardy’s Poetry as a Challenge to Metaphysics of Presence
	2.1 Hardy’s Agnosticism as a Challenge to Logocentrism
		2.1.1 Hardy’s Transcendental Signified and the Absence of Logos in His Poetry
		2.1.2 Hardy’s Problematization of the Metaphor and the Metaphor as an Act of Dissemination
	2.2 Self in Hardy—Unified and Fragmented
	2.3 Structure and Language in Hardy—Irony and Language of Negation as Destabilizing Elements of Discourse
		2.3.1 Irony as a Destabilizing Element
		2.3.2 Hardy’s Language of Negation as a Destabilizing Textual Element
	2.4 Hardy’s Concept of Time—A Challenge to Linearity
		2.4.1 Space-Time/Time-Space/Spacing
		2.4.2 Dorset as an Upholstery Button (Point de Capiton)
3 Conclusion
References
Appendices—Poems
	App. 1—“The Subalterns”
	App. 2—“A Sign-Seeker”
	App. 3—“In the Study”
	App. 4—“Nature’s Questioning”
	App. 5—“God-Forgotten”
	App. 6—“God’s Funeral”
	App. 7—“Self-Unconscious”
	App. 8—“Christmas in the Elgin Room”
	App. 9—“Moments of Vision”
	App. 10—“The Voice”
	App. 11—“The Haunter”
	App. 12—“Before and After Summer”
	App. 13—“At the Piano”
	App. 14—“The Wind Blew Words”
	App. 15—“The Clock of the Years”
	App. 16—“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”
	App. 17—“The Ruined Maid”
	App. 18—“At the Altar-Rail”
	App. 19—“The Vampirine Fair”
	App. 20—“The Impercipient”
	App. 21—“The Shadow on the Stone”
	App. 22—“The Temporary The All”
	App. 23—“The Rambler”
	App. 24—“The Self-Unseeing”
	App. 25—“The Going”
	App. 26—“Evening Shadows”
	App. 27—“Afternoon Service at Mellstock”
	App. 28—“Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard”
	App. 29—“On Sturminster Foot-Bridge”
	App. 30—“Overlooking the River Stour”
	App. 31—“Domicilium”
Index