 | Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition: The One and the Many in The Dynasts Subjects: Hardy Thomas 1840–1928. Dynasts; Bakhtin M.M. (Mikhail Mikhailovich) 1895–1975; Carnival in literature; Monism in literature; Using insights derived from the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, Wickens counters the usual view of The Dynasts as failed epic or tragedy, and instead situates the work as a novel within the serio-comical genres. Wickens Gordon Glen : G. Glen Wickens is a professor in the Department of English, Bishop's University. He has published articles on Hardy, Tennyson and various aspects of Victorian literary and philosophical thought. |
