Heterotopias in Tess of D’Urbervilles

• 作者: 褚萌萌
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: TESS HETEROTOPIA ENVIRONMENT DESCRIPTION SPATIAL s
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（19）
• 页码范围: 211-214
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: I561.074

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.