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OP Wordwind mentioned Hardy's "Return of the Native". I could remember only
description on the first page of the laborer with his hands turned by constant
hard work into hooks. So I looked at some sites with literary criticism. I could
not quite understand the way the word "hermetic" was used.The dictionary gives
the term "magical" but that doesn't quite fit.
Hardy’s landscapes are hermetic: they show us the visible world
as a portrait of the invisible, the word of inner states of being. Hardy not
only observes, but he recreates the demanding spirit of the place; the essence
of the novel is a vital and indispensable ingredient of all his novels, primarily
a product of creativeimagination. Wessex is a symbolic microcosm like
Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha or Joseph Conrad’s Sulaco.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted hermetic wwh 11/04/01 08:26 PM Re: hermetic tsuwm 11/04/01 08:37 PM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 11/04/01 08:42 PM Re: hermetic wwh 11/04/01 08:56 PM Re: hermetic Bingley 11/05/01 05:25 AM Re: hermetic Jackie 11/05/01 12:52 PM Re: hermetic milum 11/05/01 01:22 PM Re: hermetic wwh 11/05/01 02:03 PM Re: hermetic Bingley 11/06/01 04:01 AM Re: hermetic Flatlander 11/05/01 02:11 PM
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