Thomas Hardy And Contemporary Literary Studies

Author : T. Dolin,P. Widdowson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Author : Peter Widdowson
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746311691

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Thomas Hardy by Peter Widdowson Pdf

Thomas Hardy still seems to speak to us, in fiction and in poetry, as 'our contemporary'. This second edition of Peter Widdowson's study identifies the elements in Hardy's work which enable him to be read thus: the focus on unstable class and sexual relationships in a society undergoing rapid change; the highly-charged representations of women at the heart of this process; the self-reflexive artifice of the writing itself as an aspect of Hardy's 'satiric' view of a 'new Dark Age'. Professor Widdowson shows where this radical and destabilizing Hardy is to be located in the texts, while also seeking to recast our conventional conception of Hardy the Poet. For this new edition, the author has updated the bibliography and included a 'Postscript" on film and TV adaptations of Hardy's fiction, since many newcomers to it now first experience his work in this medium. This study offers a comprehensive guide to reading Hardy anew as a writer who challenges our assumptions about art and life.

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350309432

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Thomas Hardy by Julian Wolfreys Pdf

No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781604138078

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Thomas Hardy by Harold Bloom Pdf

- A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study- A useful chronology of the writer's life- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Author : Peter Widdowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134701650

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Literature by Peter Widdowson Pdf

This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature: * offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins * illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term 'literary' * provides a definition of the 'literary' for the twenty-first century With Literature Peter Widdowson provides a thought-provoking essay on the contemporary relevance of the 'literary' for students.

Author : Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108033824

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The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 by Florence Emily Hardy Pdf

The second volume (1930) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.

Author : H. Orel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230373716

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Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings by H. Orel Pdf

'... Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings is an informative book, and a superlatively well-edited one. Professor Orel has been generous in his inclusions, meticulous in his texts, and thorough in his annotations. Anything that one is likely to want to read of Hardy's occasional prose is here, and what is not here is carefully described in an annotated appendix. The book takes it place at once with Richard Purdy's bibliography as a standard, useful, trustworthy work in the library of essential Hardy scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement '... these essays certainly deserve to be much better known.' Raymond Williams, Guardian

Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Margaret Elvy
Publisher : Crescent Moon Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131702578

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Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure by Margaret Elvy Pdf

'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.

Author : P. Mallett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230519930

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Palgrave Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies by P. Mallett Pdf

Palgrave Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies explores the key issues in the ongoing and lively debate about Thomas Hardy's work as a novelist and poet. In twelve newly-commissioned essays, distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic review, take issue with and take forward the most recent and significant research on Thomas Hardy.

Author : Keith Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118398517

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A Companion to Thomas Hardy by Keith Wilson Pdf

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy’s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers

Author : Thomas Hardy,Lennart A Björk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349066490

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The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy,Lennart A Björk Pdf

Author : Simon Barker,Jo Gill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441148025

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Literature as History by Simon Barker,Jo Gill Pdf

Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking back over the thirty-five years of Peter Widdowson's career - a career which has coincided with the emergence of, challenges to, and reformulations of critical theory - and ask what the future holds, particularly for the interdisciplinary ways of working which Widdowson pioneered. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the interdisciplinary study of English and History, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of the current field of literary studies and to ask searching questions about its future development.

Author : Jody Griffith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438478333

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Victorian Structures by Jody Griffith Pdf

Although Victorian novels often feature lengthy descriptions of the buildings where characters live, work, and pray, we may not always notice the stories these buildings tell. But when we do pay attention, we find these buildings offer more than evocative background settings. Victorian Structures uses the architectural writings of Victorian critic John Ruskin as a framework for examining the interaction of physical, social, and narrative structures in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Adam Bede by George Eliot, and The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. By closely reading their descriptions of architectural structure, this book reconsiders structure itself—both the social structures the novels reflect, and the narrative structures they employ. Weaving together analysis of these three kinds of structure offers an interpretation of Victorian realism that is far more socially and formally unstable than critics have tended to assume. It illustrates how these novels radically critique the limitations, dysfunctions, and deceptions of structure, while also imagining alternative possibilities. This unique interdisciplinary approach emphasizes structure-in-time: while current conversations about structure focus on its static and fixed properties, this book understands it as various forces in tension, producing meanings that are always in flux. Victorian Structures focuses not only on the way structures shape our perceptions and experiences, but also, more importantly, on the processes through which those structures come to be constructed in the first place, and how they change over time.

Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139618915

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Thomas Hardy in Context by Phillip Mallett Pdf

This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to the social and political challenges of his time; his engagement with contemporary intellectual debate; and his legacy in the twentieth century and after. Emphasising the subtle and ongoing interaction between Hardy's life, his creative achievement and the unique historical moment, the collection also examines Hardy's relationship to such issues as class, education, folklore, archaeology and anthropology, evolution, marriage and masculinity, empire and the arts. A valuable contextual reference for scholars of Victorian and modernist literature, the collection will also prove accessible for the general reader of Hardy.