H05037 THESIS QUERY - 4/25/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
From: meryfac@hotmail.com
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: April 26, 2005 1:55:21 PM PDT
Hello, I've just joined to the forum, I'm an italian student and I'm going
to graduate! I'm writing a thesis about Thomas Hardy and what I want to
demonstrate is that Hardy was an "hypertextual" poet, ante litteram of
course!
I would like to show it by analyzing the wessex poems...
Can you suggest me anything about this theme?
Thanks in advance!
Sincerely
Maria
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: Thesis Query
Date: April 27, 2005 7:03:34 AM PDT
Dear Maria,
Welcome to the Hardy Forum! I hope you will enjoy the discussions.
However, could you please tell us a little more about the thesis you are
working on. For example, in what sense do use the word "hypertextual."
It would also be helpful to other subscribers if you were to tell us a
little more about what you have done already on your topic, and something
about the direction in which you plan to proceed. Once we know a little
more about your work I hope we can be of more help to you.
Best Wishes,
Betty Cortus
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Maria's Thesis
Date: April 28, 2005 6:55:00 AM PDT
Dear All,
In response to my request for more information about her thesis, Maria
Fachinetti, an Italian student you may remember, sent me the following
message. I hope that some of our more technically literate members can
offer her some advice.
Many Thanks,
Betty
Dear Mrs Cortus, my thesis talks about literature and internet and, in
particular, about Thomas Hardy's poetry. The first chapter, in
general, talks about the emergence of the electronic library, information
networks, and about the need and usefulness of making scholarly journals
electronic and the way through which the new technology can help scholars
to make scholar edition. The second chapter is on Hardy's life and
works and I'm pointing out the passage >from novels to poems. I've not
yet written the third chapter that it is supposed to be on the
"hypertextual" element in Thomas Hardy's poetry. Talking with my teacher,
we have decided to create an electronic scholarly edition of Thomas
Hardy's Wessex Poems. My teacher's idea is that Hardy was an obsessive
reviser of his poems, and furthermore, some of them create links with
other poems. These features can be well placed in an hypertextual
environment, where the technology can facilitate the logical associations,
that lay implicitly in every literary work. Well, the question is now
if it is possible to work in such way on the Wessex Poems and how can I
find links between poems. At the end of my work I plan to create an
http page and if you are interested I'll give you it with pleasure! I
hope to have explained my thesis adequately, Best Wishes, Maria
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Maria's Thesis
Date: April 28, 2005 8:10:25 AM PDT
At first sight it appears that the thesis will be examining intertextuality in Hardy's poems. The hypertext -- one that exceeds the text proper -- is less a feature of Hardy's poems than of the internet. The TTHA Poetry Concordance would seem to be a good place to start.
Hope this helps,
Rosemarie
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From: meryfac@hotmail.com
Subject: Maria's Thesis
Date: April 28, 2005 12:33:46 PM PDT
Thanks a lot for the advice!
Studying Hardy, I have realized that more than one media comes in his poetry
When he lived in London, he was strongly influenced by several expositions
he saw at the National Gallery and the visual and pictorial element became
one of the salient feature of his work.
In this way, an hypertext could be very useful by accosting the images near
the texts.
Furthermore my work wants to recreate a scholar edition of Hardy's wessex
poems, therefore I have to find out many edition of the same poem, if it is
possible.
That is the central theme and the matter to be questioned: Is possible to
identify the "loca variantia" in hardy's wessex poems? if it is...what are
the more suitable poems ?
My teacher says me that Hardy revisited his poems during his career. Well, I
have to choose some of these poems and find out the different editions. Then
I could create an hypertextual site on Thomas Hardy demonstrating that our
new technology could facilitate the study of this poet.
I don't know if I exlpain in a good way what I'm working on...I apologize
for my english and say thank you all in advance!
Maria
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: HYPERTEXT
Date: April 28, 2005 1:47:06 PM PDT
Maria -- your English is vastly better than my Italian - so I'm lying low! You might, though, find it more rewarding to express yourself in simpler (Anglo-Saxon) terms -- thus getting closer to the poet-Hardy even as you speak and write!
As for variants of Wessex Poems you need to get hold of a copy of James Gibson's Variorum Edition of The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy.
Good Luck ,
Rosemarie
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From: meryfac@hotmail.com
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: April 28, 2005 2:01:56 PM PDT
You are really kind.
Tomorrow I'll buy the book you've suggested me!
Thank you very much
Maria
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