Thomas Hardy Folklore And Resistance

Author : Jacqueline Dillion
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137503206

Get Book

Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance by Jacqueline Dillion Pdf

This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom’. This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change.

Author : Alan G. Smith,Robert Edgar,John Marland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501384011

Get Book

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition by Alan G. Smith,Robert Edgar,John Marland Pdf

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of England's rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardy's world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat.

Author : Roger Ebbatson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783031401107

Get Book

Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy by Roger Ebbatson Pdf

This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure.

Author : Robert Edgar,Wayne Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000951851

Get Book

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror by Robert Edgar,Wayne Johnson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field. Divided into five parts, the first focuses on the history of Folk Horror from medieval texts to the present day. It considers the first wave of contemporary Folk Horror through the films of the ‘unholy trinity’, as well as discussing the influence of ancient gods and early Folk Horror. Part 2 looks at the spaces, landscapes, and cultural relics, which form a central focus for Folk Horror. In Part 3, the contributors examine the rich history of the use of folklore in children’s fiction. The next part discusses recent examples of Folk Horror-infused music and image. Chapters consider the relationship between different genres of music to Folk Horror (such as folk music, black metal, and new wave), sound and performance, comic books, and the Dark Web. Often regarded as British in origin, the final part analyses texts which break this link, as the contributors reveal the larger realms of regional, national, international, and transnational Folk Horror. Featuring 40 contributions, this authoritative collection brings together leading voices in the field. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in this vibrant genre and its enduring influence on literature, film, music, and culture.

Author : Wolfreys Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781474448000

Get Book

Reading Victorian Literature by Wolfreys Julian Wolfreys Pdf

A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismProvides stheoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholarsChapters provide detailed close readings of the work of J Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, William Michael Rossetti, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him.

Author : Matthew Cheeseman,Carina Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000440430

Get Book

Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland by Matthew Cheeseman,Carina Hart Pdf

This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands’ constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of uncertainty and change. This book is concerned with understanding folklore, particularly through its intersections with the narratives of nation entwined within art, literature, disciplinary practice and lived experience. By following these ideas throughout history into the twenty-first century, the authors show how notions of the folk have inspired and informed varied points from the Brothers Grimm to Brexit. They also examine how folklore has been adapting to the real and imagined changes of recent political events, acquiring newfound global and local rhetorical power. This collection asks why, when and how folklore has been deployed, enacted and considered in the context of national ideologies and ideas of nationhood in Britain and Ireland. Editors Cheeseman and Hart have crafted a thoughtful and timely collection, ideal for students and scholars of folklore, history, literature, anthropology, sociology and media studies.

Author : Annette R. Federico
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826274434

Get Book

My Victorian Novel by Annette R. Federico Pdf

The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian world. Each writes about a novel that has acquired personal relevance to them––a work that has become entwined with their own story, or that remains elusive or compelling for reasons hard to explain. These are essays in the original sense of the word, attempts: individual and experiential approaches to literary works that have subjective meanings beyond social facts. By reflecting on their own histories with novels taught, studied, researched, and re-experienced in different contexts over many years, the contributors reveal how an aesthetic object comes to inhabit our critical, pedagogical, and personal lives. By inviting scholars to share their experiences with a favorite novel without the pressure of an analytical agenda, the sociable essays in My Victorian Novel seek to restore some vitality to the act of literary criticism, and encourage other scholars to talk about the importance of reading in their lives and the stories that have enchanted and transformed them. The novels in this collection include: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray Middlemarch by George Eliot Daniel Deronda by George Eliot The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Bleak House by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens New Grub Street by George Gissing The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Dracula by Bram Stoker Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Author : Ruth Anita Firor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Dorset (England)
ISBN : OCLC:219920341

Get Book

Folkways in Thomas Hardy by Ruth Anita Firor Pdf

Author : Adrian Grafe,Jessica Stephens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786490929

Get Book

Lines of Resistance by Adrian Grafe,Jessica Stephens Pdf

Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This collection of 15 critical essays explores how poetry and resistance interact, set against a philosophical, historical and cultural background. In the light of the upheavals of the age, and the changing perception of the nature of language, resistance is seen to lie at the core of poetic preoccupations, moving poetic language forward. From this perspective, the resistance of poetry is connected with the human call to solidarity, resilience, and, ultimately, meaning. The volume covers poetry from Hardy, Yeats and Auden, among others, to contemporary writers like Hugo Williams and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Author : Owen Davies,Ceri Houlbrook
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030767655

Get Book

Building Magic by Owen Davies,Ceri Houlbrook Pdf

This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.

Author : Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783796549731

Get Book

Tanz und Musik by Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro Pdf

Wie beeinflussen Tanzbewegungen die musikalische Spielweise? Und umgekehrt: Welche Wirkung hat die musikalische Interpretation auf die Ausführung einer Choreografie? Wie stehen tänzerische und melodische Phrasierung zueinander? Derlei Fragen zum Verhältnis von Tanz und Musik ergeben sich sowohl bei der praktischen Ausführung als auch bei der Erforschung historischer ‹Tanzmusik›. Entsprechend vielseitig sind die Zugänge, mit denen dieser interdisziplinäre Band ‹Tanzmusik› vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik untersucht, kontextualisiert und im Sinne historischer Musikpraxis erschließt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Klang und Bewegung in verschiedenen historischen Repertoires, Gattungen und Formen.

Author : Neşe ŞENEL, Ecevit BEKLER, Merve YORULMAZ KAHVE,Ragıp MUHAMMED, Arzu DEVECI TOPAL,Şebnem KOLTAN YILMAZ, Damla Til ÖĞÜT ,Gülden GÜVENÇ, Selmin ERDİ GÖK,Emine ÖZTÜRK ,Ersin SAVAŞ, Büşra Meltem TÜRKMEN, Melda AKBABA,Melih AYDIN, Musa OFLAZ, Seçil GÜRÜN KARATEPE,Nursel AYDINTUĞ MYRVANG,Tuğba YEĞİN,Salih DİNÇEL,Ahmet Bahadır ŞİMŞEK,Zekiye GÖKTEKİN,Ahmet YÜCEL,Abdurrahman KARAMAN
Publisher : Livre de Lyon
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9782382364536

Get Book

Interpretive Research Humanities and Social Sciences by Neşe ŞENEL, Ecevit BEKLER, Merve YORULMAZ KAHVE,Ragıp MUHAMMED, Arzu DEVECI TOPAL,Şebnem KOLTAN YILMAZ, Damla Til ÖĞÜT ,Gülden GÜVENÇ, Selmin ERDİ GÖK,Emine ÖZTÜRK ,Ersin SAVAŞ, Büşra Meltem TÜRKMEN, Melda AKBABA,Melih AYDIN, Musa OFLAZ, Seçil GÜRÜN KARATEPE,Nursel AYDINTUĞ MYRVANG,Tuğba YEĞİN,Salih DİNÇEL,Ahmet Bahadır ŞİMŞEK,Zekiye GÖKTEKİN,Ahmet YÜCEL,Abdurrahman KARAMAN Pdf

Interpretive Research Humanities and Social Sciences, Livre de Lyon

Author : Leslie Rogne Schumacher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031365140

Get Book

The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain by Leslie Rogne Schumacher Pdf

This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the expansion of the British Empire’s role in the Middle East. It investigates how British political leaders, journalists and the general public responded to events in the Ottoman Empire, which many, if not most, people in Britain came to see as trudging towards inevitable chaos and destruction. Although this ‘Eastern Question’ on a post-Ottoman future was ostensibly a matter of international politics and sometimes conflict, this study argues that the ideas underpinning it were conceived, shaped, and enforced according to domestic British attitudes. In this way, this book presents the Eastern Question as as much a British question as one related in any way to the Ottoman Empire. Particularly in the crucial decade of the 1870s, debates in Victorian society on the Eastern Question served as proxies for other pressing issues of the day, including electoral reform, changing religious attitudes, public education, and the costs of maintaining Britain’s empire. This book offers new perspectives on the Eastern Question’s relationship to these trends in Victorian society, culture, and politics, highlighting its significance in understanding Britain’s imperial programme more widely in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Lascelles Abercrombie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006090142

Get Book

Thomas Hardy by Lascelles Abercrombie Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1840225599

Get Book

Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy Pdf

A biography of Thomas Hardy, this book offers a miscellany of reminiscences, anecdotes, folk-tales, personal insights, diary entries and reflections on art in general and fiction and poetry in particular.