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O interpretare foucauldiană a romanului Întoarcerea băştinaşului de Thomas Hardy
A World under Surveillance: A Foucauldian Reading of Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native

Author(s): Ioana Eparu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: Panoptic; gaze; punishment; Foucault; Hardy

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the concepts of Panopticon, panoptic gaze, discipline and punishment as reflected in Foucault’s work Discipline and Punish. This Foucauldian schema is applied to Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native, a Victorian omniscient narration which confers a panoptic view of the world it holds under surveillance.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 169-174
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English