Till Death Did Him Part: Thomas Hardy and His Funerals: Special issue of EJLW: "Life Writing & Death: Dialogues of the Dead"
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Till Death Did Him Part: Thomas Hardy and His Funerals : Special issue of EJLW: "Life Writing & Death: Dialogues of the Dead". / Lock, Charles.
I: European Journal of Life Writing, Bind 9, 07.2020, s. 132-150.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Till Death Did Him Part: Thomas Hardy and His Funerals
T2 - Special issue of EJLW: "Life Writing & Death: Dialogues of the Dead"
AU - Lock, Charles
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - This essay considers Hardy’s two funerals—for his ashes at Poets’ Corner, for his heart at Stinsford—in the light of their consequences for life-writing: the absence of a single resting-place, and the narrative demands of synchronicity in telling of two funerals. This division of the body was the consequence of an extraordinary lack of precision in Hardy’s own will, the composition, wording and interpretation of which are examined here in some detail. Attention is also paid to the single grave at Stinsford that holds the remains of Hardy and both his wives in diverse modalities of the invisible.
AB - This essay considers Hardy’s two funerals—for his ashes at Poets’ Corner, for his heart at Stinsford—in the light of their consequences for life-writing: the absence of a single resting-place, and the narrative demands of synchronicity in telling of two funerals. This division of the body was the consequence of an extraordinary lack of precision in Hardy’s own will, the composition, wording and interpretation of which are examined here in some detail. Attention is also paid to the single grave at Stinsford that holds the remains of Hardy and both his wives in diverse modalities of the invisible.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
U2 - 10.21827/ejlw.9.36903
DO - 10.21827/ejlw.9.36903
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 132
EP - 150
JO - European Journal of Life Writing
JF - European Journal of Life Writing
SN - 2211-243X
ER -
ID: 255359190