PHOTOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITIES IN TWO EARLY NOVELS BY THOMAS HARDY

Abstract

The present paper deals with two early novels by Thomas Hardy – Desperate Remedies and, only peripherally, with A Pair of Blue Eyes – and brings into focus his inclination to create verbal descriptions that display a distinctive photopgraphic sensibility. His artistic technique was inspired by his architectural education and pronounced interest in art. Scholars (Wolfgang Iser, Tsotcho Boyadzhiev, Roland Barthes, Hans-Georg Gadamer, etc.) have advanced reasonable explanations of how his method is used in literature.