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" Thomas Hardy, metaphysics and music "
Mark Asquith.
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BL
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730852
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b550618
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Mark Asquith.
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Thomas Hardy, metaphysics and music\ Mark Asquith.
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| Publication Statement
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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(ix, 234 pages)
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0230508014
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: 9780230508019
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| Contents
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The Road to Norcombe Hill': Hardy's Musical Evolution --;'Silent Workings of the Invisible Hand': Hardy's Metaphysical Evolution --;The 'Spider's Web': Metaphysics into 'Music Drama' --;'The Plucked Harp String': Desire, Courtship Ritual and the Debate Concerning Speech Theory --;A Tale of 'Tragical Possibilities': Music and the Birth of Consciousness in The Return of the Native --;'A Tragedy Appropriate for its Time': Music and the Story of a 'Man of Character' --;'All Creation Groaning': A Deaf Ear to Music in Jude the Obscure.
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This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works.
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Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Fictional works.
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Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Music.
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Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Philosophy.
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PR4757.M74M375 2005
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Mark Asquith
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