660 KB22 KB198220252018Wilson-Bates, Tobiasštevilka:1/2letnik:51str. 127-135ISSN:0567-784XCOBISSID_HOST:68737890URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-LVMPBAYFenZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakulteteActa neophilologicaangleška književnostEnglish literatureHardy, ThomasVictorian fictionviktorjanska prozaThe circus and the deadly child| ruptures of social code in Jude the Obscure|Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure has frequently been read as Hardy's social cri-tique of marriage, class, and systemic education. Readings of the novel in this crit-ical tradition have a tendency to simplify the text into an allegory emergent from Hardy's own biography. I seek to destabilize these readings by instead engaging with the text as one not concerned with institutions but rather the underlying social codes that give them coherence. By pairing Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of speech and counter speech with Lee Edelman's queer critique of child-centered futurity, I offer a new reading of the novel that privileges codes and legibility as central to the novel's critical projectJude the Obscure Thomasa Hardyja je bila pogosto interpretirana kot družbena kritika zakona oziroma poroke, razreda in sistemske izobrazbe. Takšna branja v tej kritiški tradiciji pa vendarle poenostavljajo tekst v alegorijo, ki izhaja iz Har-dyjeve lastne biografije. Avtor članka želi destabilizirati takšne interpretacije in se ukvarja s tekstom, ki naj se ne bi ukvarjal z institucijami, marveč bolj z relevant-nimi družbenimi kodi, ki jim omogočajo koherenco. Ob uporabi Bakhtinovega koncepta govora in protigovora s queerovsko kritiko prihodnosti, ki naj bi bila osredinjena na otroka, avtor ponuja novo branje, ki bolj temelje na kodu in berljiv-osti, ki je po njegovem mnenju osrednjega pomena v kritiškem projektu romanaTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta