Download or read book Unity in Hardy s Novels written by Peter J. Casagrande and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-03-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hardy s Lyrics written by B. Green and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy frequently insisted that his poems were not self-expressive, but dramatic or 'impersonative'. Yet biographical expositions have dulled their impersonality. Brian Green's approach is more exacting and rewarding; taking Hardy at his word, he traces Hardy's 'master theme' throughout the corpus of poems - a governing concern which merges Victorian and perennial ideas throughout the whole of Hardy's writings.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy Time and Narrative written by K. Ireland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and Modernist eras.
Download or read book Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy s Tragic Narratives written by Rıza Öztürk and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatment of Hardy’s tragic narratives under the objective lens of evolutionary literary theory has led to three basic findings: First, within the scope of the analysis of the five major tragic narratives, representation of Hardy’s evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, in terms of altruistic sympathy and compassion, shows that adapted parental investment in children indicates the reason why women submit to pain and suffering more than the men do. The costly investment of women in maternal behaviour leads to submission in many cases, but in return they gain better fitness for survival and reproduction than men. This is implicitly highlighted as a force of superiority in the tragedies studied, as the male characters often invest in heroic deeds over their children. Second, that which has for many years been identified as pessimism in Hardy’s tragic narratives is in fact a surface cognitive layer, under which is an implicit teaching of evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, which guides to a true fitness of human life. Third, sympathy and particularly compassion are not only human emotions but also adapted cognitive virtues that centre on ethical teaching. Thus, an integrated model of science and humanities for art and literary analysis is required to address not only those of English language and literature departments, but also those aligned to the idea of integrating the two methods. A scientific and objective view of human life is in opposition to postmodern and structuralist approaches, which have generally been considered as the centre of interest during the latter half of the 20th century.
Download or read book Ambivalence in Hardy written by S. Dutta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the critical debate regarding Hardy's attitude to women: apologist or misogynist? With the help of manuscript evidence and references to Hardy's autobiography, letters, literary notebooks, marginalia, and the letters of his wives, this book combines a biographical approach with a feminist reading. Significant space is devoted to the 'minor' novels, the short stories, and to Hardy's real life literary relations with his contemporary women writers, his protégées and his two 'scribbling' wives, to balance the hitherto exclusive focus on the 'major' novels.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love written by Hillel Matthew Daleski and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the vast changes in literary criticism that have occurred during the last thirty years, H. M. Daleski reexamines Thomas Hardy's novels in the novelist's own terms, presenting a revisionary account of his treatment of gender. He also shows that Hardy was not as sexist as is asserted in much feminist criticism and that his female characters are sympathetically portrayed as the centers of his fictional worlds. By carefully analyzing the novels, Daleski refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his powers, claiming that he drove himself to a dead end in Jude the Obscure. The typical Hardy plot places a female protagonist in a love triangle with two male protagonists who are portrayed as polar opposites. The woman contradicting a general view of her as victim is always granted the freedom of choice of a marriage partner. She invariably makes the wrong choice, which leads to a bad marriage and disastrous sexual relationships. As this scenario is played out in most of Hardy's novels, the men are presented as distinct types, the types being depicted with rich diversity and with steadily greater psychological depth. Hardy's rendering of sexuality in both his male and his female characters is marked by its originality and profundity. In his intuitions about sexual relations, Daleski maintains Hardy was not outdone by writers such as Lawrence and Joyce. Daleski studies Hardy within his Victorian context, but he also shows that Hardy, both in his depiction of sexuality and in his technical innovations, was in advance of his time. In these respects Hardy deserves to be regarded as a forerunner of the great modernists. In Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love, Daleski offers acute and thoughtful analyses of Hardy's major novels. Avoiding critical jargon, the author has made his book accessible to all readers with an interest in Hardy and his novels, as well as in the study of gender in English literature.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Religion written by Richard Franklin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wellspring of Thomas Hardy and Religion is the recognition that Thomas Hardy's two late great novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are dominated, respectively, by two religious traditions of nineteenth-century Anglicanism: Evangelicalism and Anglo-Catholicism. Placing those movements in their historical context alongside other Victorian religious traditions, the author explores the development of Hardy's religious beliefs and ideas up till the 1880s. Evangelicalism in Tess is discussed through an analysis of the principal characters, Angel Clare and his father, Parson Clare, Alec d'Urberville and Tess herself, leading to a consideration of why this form of Christianity looms so large in that novel. Not unexpectedly, the reasons for this are linked to Hardy's personal and intellectual biography, especially his religious upbringing and experience of and involvement in these religious traditions. This applies to both novels. The sources of Jude the Obscure in Hardy's life and thought, and their links to Anglo-Catholicism, are revealed in the context of the influence of that tradition on the narrative and characters, in particular Jude's sense of vocation, the importance of the university town of Christminster and issues associated with marriage, divorce and sexuality. Throughout his analysis of both novels the author demonstrates how Hardy lambasts the way in which these religious traditions and the conventional Victorian morality they bolstered undermine human flourishing. Thomas Hardy and Religion concludes by considering the place these two novels have in the continuing trajectory of Hardy's theological ideas, underlining the critical importance of understanding his religious concerns and reflecting on the way in which his critique of religion is important to people of faith.
Download or read book Under the greenwood tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Novel Universe written by Pamela Gossin and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin offers complex and inspired readings of seven novels that enrich previous Darwinian, feminist and formalist perspectives on his work. S
Download or read book Victorian Fiction written by S. D Sharma and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Minor Novels written by Beat Riesen and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas Thomas Hardy's major novels have received ample attention, his minor ones have been singularly neglected by critics. In the present work an attempt has been made to go beyond the treatment of these novels as separate items and to emphasize their character as stages in a progression, expressions of different phases in a process of artistic development. The present study attempts to see these novels in relation to the unfolding of Hardy's literary career as a whole. Underlying this approach is the view that all Hardy's novels, whether denominated major or minor, can be regarded as milestones in his fictional development, and that the concept of major or minor depends essentially on the view of Hardy's novels as a collection of separate individual items, rather than as parts of a single oeuvre.
Download or read book Psychological Realism in 19th Century Fiction written by Debashish Sen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of psychological realism in select works from nineteenth-century fiction, namely Fathers and Sons, Anna Karenina, The Mill on the Floss, and Jane Eyre. It shows how psychoanalytic theories may be applied to illuminate various aspects of the psyches of characters in these texts. The book provides evidence that theories like John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory and Karen Horney’s Personality Theory can go a long way in enhancing our understanding of literary characters, the meaning of the text, its relation to its creator, and the author’s psychology. As such, it brings forth a novel view of literary criticism, and will serve to convince the reader that a critical approach devoid and dismissive of the psychological aspect is incomplete and hurts literary criticism on the whole.
Download or read book Novelists on the Novel written by Miriam Allott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959, Novelists on the Novel makes an attempt to set out fully what novelists both major and minor have to say about the practice of their art. It draws on the experience of English, French and Russian novelists so that the general reader and the more serious literature student can find out what they have to say about the novel as a literary form. The included passages come from novels themselves, from diaries, letters, notebooks, etc., and together constitute something like an aesthetic of the novel. Using these sources, the book tries to answer the following questions: What is a novel? what are the problems which face the novelist when he sits down to write a work of fiction? How is he to tell his story? What exactly is meant by the ‘point of view’? How should he manipulate time? How is he, in one of the possible senses of the word, to make his characters seem ‘real’? What are the functions of dialogue and how should it be dovetailed into narrative?
Download or read book Thomas Hardy Distracted Preacher written by Timothy R. Hands and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-07-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thomas Hardy Society Review written by Thomas Hardy Society and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pastoral Palimpsests written by Michael Paschalis and published by Michael Paschalis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
