Download or read book Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Thomas Hardy written by Dale Kramer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-06-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy written by C. Pettit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy is a lively and varied collection of new essays on Thomas Hardy, contributed by some of the world's leading Hardy scholars. The essays range widely over Hardy's work, thought, creative methods and life, and show a variety of critical approaches. The essays collected here will appeal equally to scholars, students and non-academic Hardy enthusiasts.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy Towards a Materialist Criticism written by George Wotton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the generally accepted critical constructions of the novels of Thomas Hardy, this book explores the historical, social, aesthetic and ideological determinants of Hardy's novels. Analyzing the ways in which Hardy's writings have been variously reproduced in literary criticism to produce certain social and ideological effects. Wotton also discusses the relation between Hardy's writing and Hardy criticism.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Anne Alexander and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1987 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Anne Alexander examines the grounds for considering the 'dream-country' approach to Hardy's fiction. She shows how the 'dream-country' environment may suggest the awakening of unconscious thoughts and feelings and how Hardy uses this to suggest the extent to which these unconscious thoughts and feelings affect the behavior of individual characters as well as the relationships between men and women.
Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy written by Geoffrey Harvey and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work. It includes the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critical map of Hardy's complete writing an outline of the vast body of criticism that has built up around Hardy's work with examples of recent critical debate. Both exposition and guide, this volume enables students to form their own readings of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Shorter Fiction written by Sophie Gilmartin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.
Download or read book Trial by Ordeal written by Edward Neill and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trial by Ordeal takes a sharp look at central aspects of the critical reception of Thomas Hardy. It demonstrates how critical appropriations of Hardy's work often provide a simplifying, conventional, or conservative image of the writer, which a sophisticated view of his creative intentions by no means confirms. Edward Neill discusses the dangers inherent in interpreting Hardy's writings in terms of his life; the limitations of criticism that views his work as nostalgic reaction; approaches to the poetry; and the critical response to Jude the Obscure.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy Femininity and Dissent written by J. Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-11-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent offers original and detailed readings of six critically under-valued novels: Desperate Remedies, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Hand of Ethelberta, A Laodicean, Two on a Tower and The Well-Beloved , demonstrating Hardy's peculiarly modern appreciation of how individuals negotiate the forces which shape their sense of self. Tracing his interest in the evolutionary debate and the woman question this book reveals a new politically engaged rather than a grimly pessimistic Hardy.
Download or read book Critical Essays on Thomas Hardy written by Dale Kramer and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-World-War-II criticism on a number of Hardy's novels is collected in this volume by an eminent Hardy scholar. Five of these sixteen essays are written as overall treatments of Hardy's broad themes, and the rest focus on individual novels. A variety of approaches are features, including feminist, Marxist and impressionist ones. One of the two original essays looks at his wife Emma's role as chief transcriber and offers a set of criteria for distinguishing her handwriting. Several essays examine Hardy's critical reception: once thought to be crude and unsophisticated, Hardy is now cited by theorists to develop or prove theories on fiction development.
Download or read book The Novels of Thomas Hardy written by Penelope Vigar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What he himself characteristically called 'his idiosyncratic mode of regard' is a factor few readers of Hardy's novels can overlook and one with which all serious students of his fiction must come to terms. The fact that there is nevertheless little final agreement about the nature of his achievement has prompted Miss Vigar to make a fresh study of Hardy's own notes and essays on the art of the novel and to analyse his fictional technique in the light of these unduly neglected observations. Her approach centres on Hardy's pervasive theme of the contrast between appearance and reality and on his frequent use of 'pictorial' devices to express his imaginative vision. She is able to develop a critical account of Hardy's work that can convincingly explain, by reference to the same criteria, both its strengths and its weaknesses, its successes and failures.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies written by T. Dolin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.
Download or read book A Method for Understanding and Evaluating Criticism of Philosophy in Literature written by Phyllis Jane Divita Woody and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Ronald D. Morrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a novelist before devoting his talents to writing poetry for the remainder of his life. This book focuses on Hardy's remarkable achievements as a novelist. Although Victorian readers considered some of his works controversial, his novels remained highly regarded. His novels still appear in the syllabi of courses in Victorian literature and the British novel, as well as courses in feminist/gender studies, environmental studies, and other topics. For scholars, students, and the general reader, this companion helps to makes Hardy's novels accessible by providing a detailed biography of Hardy, plot summaries of each novel, and analyses of the critical contexts surrounding them. Entries focus on the people, cultural forces, literary forms, and movements that influenced Hardy's novels. The companion also suggests approaches for original interpretations and suggestions for further study.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Jude the Obscure written by Margaret Elvy and published by Crescent Moon Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jude the Obscure' is analysed employing up-to-date developments in gender, feminist and cultural studies. Sue Bridehead in reinstated as central to the novel, and to Hardy's bitter, polemical attack on the institutions of marriage, religion, education, sexuality, identity, gender and politics.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy Annual No 2 written by Norman Page and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Lascelles Abercrombie and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
