Hardy's literary language and Victorian philology
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Hardy's literary language and Victorian philology
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [393]-402
Includes indexes
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Description
Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology is the first detailed exploration of Hardy's linguistic `awkwardness', a subject that has long puzzled critics.
Dennis Taylor's pioneering study shows that Hardy's language must be understood as a distinctive response to the philological and literary issues of his time. Deeply influenced by the Victorian historical study of language, Hardy deliberately incorporated into his own writing a sense of language's recent and hidden history, its multiple stages and classes, and its arbitrary motivations. Indeed, Taylor argues, Hardy provides an example of how a writer `purifies the dialect of the
tribe' by inclusiveness, by heterogeniety, and by a sense of history which distinguishes Hardy from a more ahistorical, synchronic modernist aesthetic and which constitutes an ongoing challenge to literary language. In what is the first major treatment of a writer's relation to the Oxford English Dictionary, the
author also examines the influence on Hardy's language of the founding and development in this period of the OED.
Table of Contents
- Hardy and the "dialect" of the tribe
- Hardy and the new philology
- word status and imitation in Hardy's language
- the historicism of Victorian philology
- Hardy's words and the language of lost origins
- Hardy's "minute way" of looking at style and idiom
- conclusion - history in current language. Appendices Hardy's notable standard words in the OED
- Hardy's notable dialect words in Wright and the OED
- Hardy's studies, specimens etc notebook.
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