摘要
Tess of D'Urbervilles is one of the Wessex novels of the late 19 thcentury naturalist writer, Thomas Hardy. The environment description has always been the focus of previous studies and critiques in that it plays a fundamental role in the characterization and the development of plot. While most of the studies consider the environment as an indicator and catalyst for the protagonists' tragedy, Foucault's philosophical theory concerning the Heterotopia actually provides us with a novel insight into the significance of the environment description in this story. In this perspective, the surroundings are not merely a physical existence entirely separated from human perceptive, but rather a synchronic space network where different spaces are intertwined and interlocked together.
Tess of D’Urbervilles is one of the Wessex novels of the late 19th century naturalist writer, Thomas Hardy. The environ-ment description has always been the focus of previous studies and critiques in that it plays a fundamental role in the characteriza-tion and the development of plot. While most of the studies consider the environment as an indicator and catalyst for the protago-nists’tragedy, Foucault’s philosophical theory concerning the Heterotopia actually provides us with a novel insight into the sig-nificance of the environment description in this story. In this perspective, the surroundings are not merely a physical existence en-tirely separated from human perceptive, but rather a synchronic space network where different spaces are intertwined and inter-locked together.
出处
《海外英语》
2014年第19期211-214,共4页
Overseas English
