The Distracted Preacher And Other Tales

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141922027

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The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy Pdf

The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative, and includes 'The Withered Arm', an eerie depiction of arcane witchcraft in nineteenth-century England; 'Barbara of the House of Grebe', in which a beautiful man's tragic disfigurement by fire is savagely exploited by his rival; 'The Son's Veto', showing the cruelty of an educated youth towards his ignorant but tender mother; and 'The Distracted Preacher', the story of one man's conflict between heartfelt love and his own sense of moral and civic duty. By turns moving and poetic, and surprisingly modern and brutally macabre, these eloquent tales may be numbered among the greatest creations of Hardy's genius.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459762287

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The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1183344216

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The Distracted Preacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938110

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The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 by Thomas Hardy Pdf

"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89099758435

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The Distracted Young Preacher by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317010425

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories by Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson Pdf

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.

Author : Timothy R. Hands
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349200337

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Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? by Timothy R. Hands Pdf

Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041283

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy by Rosemarie Morgan Pdf

In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926483849

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The Grave by the Handpost [in, The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Susan Hill] (Penguin Classics). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Pulham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351957106

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Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales by Patricia Pulham Pdf

In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). Lee's own definition of the supernatural in the preface to Hauntings questions the nature of the 'genuine ghost', and argues that this figure is not found in the Society of Psychical Research but in our own psyches, where it functions as a mediator between past and present. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, which maintains that adults transfer their childhood engagement with toys to art and cultural artifacts, Pulham argues that the prevalence of the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural fiction, as well as her aesthetic, psychological, and historical writings, held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1904 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141990934

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The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot Pdf

Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. From The Epic of Gilgamesh to the poetry of the First World War, and covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books and 4,000 years of world literature. Stuffed full of stories, author biographies, book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with thousands of historic Penguin Classic covers, this is an exhilarating and comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to explore and discover the best books ever written.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241251614

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The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy Pdf

'She bared her poor curst arm' A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Author : Norman Vance
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199680573

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Bible and Novel by Norman Vance Pdf

This study seeks to develop a new context for reading later Victorian fiction and for understanding the process of 'secularization'. Norman Vance explores how the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Mary Ward, and Rider Haggard acquired greater cultural centrality, just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining, and offered a new forum for the exploration of religious and moral themes.

Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349078134

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Hardy, Thomas, Annual by Norman Page Pdf

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351879347

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Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time by Andrew Radford Pdf

A systematic exploration of Thomas Hardy's imaginative assimilation of particular Victorian sciences, this study draws on and swells the widening current of scholarly attention now being paid to the cultural meanings compacted and released by the nascent 'sciences of man' in the nineteenth century. Andrew Radford here situates Hardy's fiction and poetry in a context of the new sciences of humankind that evolved during the Victorian age to accommodate an immense range of literal and figurative 'excavations' then taking place. Combining literary close readings with broad historical analyses, he explores Hardy's artistic response to geological, archaeological and anthropological findings. In particular, he analyzes Hardy's lifelong fascination with the doctrine of 'survivals,' a term coined by E.B. Tylor in Primitive Culture (1871) to denote customs, beliefs and practices persisting in isolation from their original cultural context. Radford reveals how Hardy's subtle reworking of Tylor's doctrine offers a valuable insight into the inter-penetration of science and literature during this period. An important aspect of Radford's research focuses on lesser known periodical literature that grew out of a British amateur antiquarian tradition of the nineteenth century. His readings of Hardy's literary notebooks disclose the degree to which Hardy's own considerable scientific knowledge was shaped by the middlebrow periodical press. Thus Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time raises questions not only about the reception of scientific ideas but also the creation of nonspecialist forms of scientific discourse. This book represents a genuinely new perspective for Hardy studies.