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Hardy Deconstructing Hardy

Nilüfer Özgür

Author : Nilüfer Özgür
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351248617

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Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked—a Derridean, Deconstructive reading of Hardy‘s poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy, this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism. While Hardy is not conventionally considered a Modernist poet, he shares with Modernists an element that can be referred to as the linguistic crisis by which they try to get over the sense of anxiety against the backdrop of a chaotic world and problematized language. The forerunner of Deconstructionism, Derrida, exposes a long established history of logocentric thinking, which has continually been moving between binary oppositions and Platonic dualities. Derrida simply puts forward the idea that there is no logos, no origin, and no centre of truth. The centre is always somewhere else; he identifies this as a ―free play of signifiers.‖ Consequently, the anxiety of the poet with modern sensibility to find a point of reference inevitably results in a ―crisis of representation,‖ or, in a problematic relation between language and truth, the signifier and the signified. This crisis can be observed in Hardy‘s poetry, too. For this purpose, this research focuses on four key concepts in Hardy‘s poetry that expose this problematic relationship between language and truth: his agnosticism, his concept of the self, his language and concept of structure, and his concept of time and temporality. These aspects are explored in the light of Derrida‘s Deconstructionism with reference to poems by Hardy which heralded the Modernist crisis of representation. This text will fulfill the function of reconciling theory with practice and become the manifestation of the importance of Poststructuralist criticism.

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy

Nilufer OEzgur

Author : Nilufer OEzgur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367891654

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Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked--a Derridean, Deconstructive reading of Hardy's poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy, this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism. While Hardy is not conventionally considered a Modernist poet, he shares with Modernists an element that can be referred to as the linguistic crisis by which they try to get over the sense of anxiety against the backdrop of a chaotic world and problematized language. The forerunner of Deconstructionism, Derrida, exposes a long established history of logocentric thinking, which has continually been moving between binary oppositions and Platonic dualities. Derrida simply puts forward the idea that there is no logos, no origin, and no centre of truth. The centre is always somewhere else; he identifies this as a ―free play of signifiers.‖ Consequently, the anxiety of the poet with modern sensibility to find a point of reference inevitably results in a ―crisis of representation,‖ or, in a problematic relation between language and truth, the signifier and the signified. This crisis can be observed in Hardy's poetry, too. For this purpose, this research focuses on four key concepts in Hardy's poetry that expose this problematic relationship between language and truth: his agnosticism, his concept of the self, his language and concept of structure, and his concept of time and temporality. These aspects are explored in the light of Derrida's Deconstructionism with reference to poems by Hardy which heralded the Modernist crisis of representation. This text will fulfill the function of reconciling theory with practice and become the manifestation of the importance of Poststructuralist criticism.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

Dale Kramer

Author : Dale Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521566924

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Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.

Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928

D. Taylor

Author : D. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349202539

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Hardy insisted that his poetry steadily grew in skill and maturity. Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928 traces this development. Gradually Hardy makes his lyric poem the model of a man's life: the way the lyric speaker forms his thoughts within the few moments of a reverie recapitulates the way a man has thought over a lifetime; the smaller interruption of the reverie portends the larger interruptions of life. This lyric model is supported by a distinctive imagery of visual patterns whose implications Hardy explores. These patterns come to symbolise the patterns of life and mind which crystallise over a lifetime and are belatedly revealed.

Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love

Hillel Matthew Daleski

Author : Hillel Matthew Daleski
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Love in literature
ISBN : 0826211259

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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.

Thomas Hardy’s Elegiac Prose and Poetry

Galia Benziman

Author : Galia Benziman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137507136

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Thomas Hardy’s Elegiac Prose and Poetry by Galia Benziman Pdf

This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy’s oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Hardy, as argued here, is dialectically implicated in the very cultural and psychological amnesia that he resists, as her book demonstrates by expanding the corpus of study beyond the spousal elegies (the “Poems of 1912-1913”) to include a wide variety of poems, novels and short stories that deal with bereavement and mourning. Locating the modern aspect of Hardy’s elegiac writing in this ambivalence and in the subversion of memory as unreliable, the book explores the textual moments at which Hardy challenges binary dichotomies such as forgetting vs. remembering, narcissism vs. unselfish commitment, grief vs. betrayal, the work of mourning vs. melancholia, presence vs. absence. The book's analysis allows us to relate Hardy’s elegiac poetics, and particularly his description of the mourner as a writer, to shifting late-Victorian conceptualizations of death, memory, art, science and gender relations.

Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies

T. Dolin,P. Widdowson

Author : T. Dolin,P. Widdowson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230389663

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Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies by T. Dolin,P. Widdowson Pdf

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.

Thomas Hardy and Empire

Jane L. Bownas

Author : Jane L. Bownas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317010449

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Thomas Hardy and Empire by Jane L. Bownas Pdf

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire and in spite of the many allusions to the Roman Empire and Napoleonic Wars in his writing. Jane L. Bownas examines the context of these references, proposing that Hardy was a writer who not only posed a challenge to the whole of established society, but one whose writings bring into question the very notion of empire. Bownas argues that Hardy takes up ideas of the primitive and civilized that were central to Western thought in the nineteenth century, contesting this opposition and highlighting the effect outsiders have on so-called 'primitive' communities. In her discussion of the oppressions of imperialism, she analyzes the debate surrounding the use of gender as an articulated category, together with race and class, and shows how, in exposing the power structures operating within Britain, Hardy produces a critique of all forms of ideological oppression.

Thomas Hardy in Context

Phillip Mallett

Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196482

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Thomas Hardy in Context by Phillip Mallett Pdf

This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.

Hardy's Early Poetry

James Persoon

Author : James Persoon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0739101528

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Not many authors are allowed the privilege of being retrospectively considered both masterful novelists and poets. Despite the fact that Thomas Hardy saw himself as a poet first, only recently have his poems been accepted as equal to his celebrated novels. Persoon explores how Hardy's poetic vision, seemingly cemented in his twenties, existed in constant tension between Darwin and Wordsworth, betweem a scientific outlook and the poetic temperament. Perceiving Hardy's metaphorical double vision--physically represented by his own eyes, one of which was smaller than the other--we see how this bouncing between realism and romanticism informed not only Hardy's poems but also his view of language, art, architecture, religion and even humor. Hardy's Early Poetry deserves attention by anyone who is interested in understanding the full richness and complexity of Hardy's work.

Inventing the Popular

Bettina R. Lerner

Author : Bettina R. Lerner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317113195

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Inventing the Popular by Bettina R. Lerner Pdf

Inventing the Popular: Working-Class Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France explores texts written, published and disseminated by a politically and socially active group of working-class writers during the first half of the nineteenth century. Through a network of exchanges featuring newspapers, poems and prose fiction, these writers embraced a vision of popular culture that represented a clear departure from more traditional oral and printed forms of popular expression; at the same time, their writing strategically resisted nascent forms of mass culture, including the daily press and the serial novel. Coming into writing at a time when Romanticism had expanded beyond the borders of the lyric je, these poets explored the social dimensions of connectivity and social relation finding interlocutors and supporters in the likes of Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand and Eugène Sue. The relationships they developed among themselves and the major figures of an increasingly socially-oriented Romanticism were as rich with emancipatory promise as well as with reactionary temptation. They constitute an extensive archive of everyday life and utopian anticipation that reframe social romanticism as a revelatory if problematic model of engaged writing.

Mark X

Yasuhiro Takeuchi

Author : Yasuhiro Takeuchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429867989

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Mark X by Yasuhiro Takeuchi Pdf

In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of Huck’s father, Pap Finn. The case is unresolved in the novel as it exists today, but Twain had already planted the clue to the identity of the killer. It is not the various objects ostentatiously left around Pap’s naked body; they are not the foreground of the scene, but actually the background, against which a peculiar absence emerges distinctively—Pap’s boots, with a "cross" in one of the heels, are gone with his murderer. The key to the mystery of Twain’s writings, as this book contends from a broader perspective, is also such an absence. Twain’s persistent reticence about the death of his father, especially the autopsy performed on his naked body, is a crucial clue to understanding his works. It reveals not only the reason why he aborted his vision of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel, but also why, despite numerous undertakings, he failed to become a master of detective fiction.

Writing Place

Rebecca Hutcheon

Author : Rebecca Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351047661

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Writing Place by Rebecca Hutcheon Pdf

Exploring a hitherto neglected field, Writing Place: Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George Gissing is the first monograph to consider the works of George Gissing (1857-1903) in light of the ‘spatial turn’. By exploring how objectivity and subjectivity interact in his work, the book asks: what are the risks of looking for the ‘real’ in Gissing’s places? How does the inherent heterogeneity of Gissing’s observation influence the textual recapitulation of place? In addition to examining canonical texts such as The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891), and The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1901), the book analyses the lesser-known novels, short stories, journalism and personal writings of Gissing, in the context of modern spatial studies. The book challenges previously biographical and London-centric accounts of Gissing’s representation of space and place by re-examining seemingly innate contemporaneous geographical demarcations such as the north and the south, the city, suburb, and country, Europe and the world, and re-reading Gissing’s places in the contexts of industrialism, ruralism, the city in literature, and travel writing. Through sustained attention to the ambiguities and contradictions rooted in the form and content of his writing, the book concludes that, ultimately, Gissing’s novels undermine spatial dichotomies by emphasising and celebrating the incongruity of seeming certainties

Jane Austen’s Geographies

Robert Clark

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351235327

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Jane Austen’s Geographies by Robert Clark Pdf

When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world. The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, or of Britain’s imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class, or as symptomatic of political fears and aspirations. Specifically, the essays consider the representation of colonial mail-order wives and naval activities in the Mediterranean, the worrisome nomadism of contemporary capitalism, the complexity of her understanding of the actual places in which her fictions are set, her awareness of and eschewal of contemporary literary conventions, and the burden of the Austen family’s Kentish origins, the political implications of addresses in London and Northamptonshire. Skilful, detailed, and historically informed, these essays open domains of meaning in Austen’s texts that have often gone unseen by later readers but which were probably available to her coterie readers and clearly merit much closer critical attention.

Melville and the Question of Meaning

David Faflik

Author : David Faflik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351110815

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Melville and the Question of Meaning by David Faflik Pdf

This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously read the author for "the ‘meaning’ of the characters," the "meaning" of the "body," "recesses of meaning," "deepest levels of meaning," "double meaning," and the "meaning" of "being" and "everything else") overlap with our own concerns, at a cultural moment when meaning feels especially strained, we have lost sight of the central place of meaning making in Melville’s work. My own readings in Melville are a pedestrian’s guide through the self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining aesthetics and sociolinguistics, history and theory, rhetoric and politics, philosophy and film studies, Melville and the Question of Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville remains as vital as ever.

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy by Nilüfer Özgür Pdf

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy by Nilufer OEzgur Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy by Dale Kramer Pdf

Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928 by D. Taylor Pdf

Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love by Hillel Matthew Daleski Pdf

Thomas Hardy’s Elegiac Prose and Poetry by Galia Benziman Pdf

Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies by T. Dolin,P. Widdowson Pdf

Thomas Hardy and Empire by Jane L. Bownas Pdf

Thomas Hardy in Context by Phillip Mallett Pdf

Hardy's Early Poetry by James Persoon Pdf

Inventing the Popular by Bettina R. Lerner Pdf

Mark X by Yasuhiro Takeuchi Pdf

Writing Place by Rebecca Hutcheon Pdf

Jane Austen’s Geographies by Robert Clark Pdf

Melville and the Question of Meaning by David Faflik Pdf

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