- AutorIn
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Horlacher Technische Universität Dresden, Professur für Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
- Titel
- “Joseph the dreamer of dreams”
- Untertitel
- Jude Fawley's construction of masculinity in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-365542
- Quellenangabe
- Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
Herausgeber: Stefan Horlacher
Erscheinungsort: Leiden
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Titel Schriftenreihe: DQR Studies in Literature Online
Bandnummer Schriftenreihe: 58
Seiten: 141-168
ISBN: 978-90-04-29899-6
E-ISBN: 978-90-04-29900-9 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2015
- Abstract (EN)
- Jude the Obscure is not only Thomas Hardy´s last but probably also his bleakest novel. Even the epigram on the frontispiece - 'The letter killeth [but the spirit giveth life]' - can be read as having negative forebodings; it can, however, also be interpreted as a commentary on the 'nature' of language and on the absolute necessity of understanding its founding mechanisms such as absence, difference and deferral if one is to lead a happy and meaningful life and if one endeavors to claim the freedom and the responsibility to construct one´s gender identity. This essay thus centers on the extent to which Hardy´s protagonist Jude Fawley, a man who desperately clings to the illusion of a transcendental signified, is able to understand and put into practice Hardy´s epigram when constructing his masculinity. Therefore, the focus of inquiry will be the hitherto largely neglected discursive construction of an ill-fated male gender identity in a discursive universe where 'nobody did come, because nobody does' and where taking words literally has lethal consequences.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zur elektronischen Version des Gesamtbandes.
DOI: 10.1163/9789004299009 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Männlichkeit, Geschlechterkonstruktion, Jude the Obscure
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Masculinity, gender construction, Jude the Obscure
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 820
- Klassifikation (RVK)
- HN 1101
- EC 5410
- EC 1876
- Verlag
- Brill | Rodopi, Boston
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- angenommene Version / Postprint / Autorenversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-365542
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 27.07.2020
- Dokumenttyp
- Buchbeitrag
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis