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Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition
Alan G. Smith
Robert Edgar
John Marland
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2023-05-04
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Horror & Supernatural
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Horror
Literary Criticism / General
Performing Arts / Film / General
ISBN
1501384007
9781501384004
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IlK2EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition
takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror
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This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of England's rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardy's world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis,
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition
posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat.