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Thomas Hardy Reappraised

Keith Wilson
Thomas Hardy Reappraised Book PDF

Author : Keith Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442659544

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Thomas Hardy Reappraised by Keith Wilson Pdf

As a writer who achieved major eminence in both fiction and poetry and whose engagement with these genres encompassed the period of transition from Victorianism to Modernism, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) enjoys a unique position in English Literary History. Michael Millgate, University Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Toronto is widely recognized as the world's foremost Thomas Hardy scholar. His contributions to the study of Hardy over more than three decades include his recently 'revisited' biography, the seven volume edition of Hardy's collected letters, and the influential critical study Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist. In Thomas Hardy Reappraised, editor Keith Wilson pays tribute to Millgate's many contributions to Hardy studies by bringing together new work by fifteen of the world's most eminent Hardy scholars. These essays address questions of biblical and literary allusiveness, cultural, historical, and philosophical context, narrative and poetic theory and practice, as well as Hardy's place in the modern world and his influence on younger writers. Together, the contributors offer one of the most significant reappraisals of Hardy's work to have appeared since Michael Millgate helped to transform Hardy studies. They offer graphic testimony to Hardy's enduring popularity and importance. Contributors: Pamela Dalziel Mary Rimmer Dennis Taylor Barbara Hardy U.C. Knoepflmacher Marjorie Garson Ruth Bernard Yeazell Simon Gatrell J. Hillis Miller George Levine Jeremy V. Steele William W. Morgan Samuel Hynes Norman Page W. J. Keith

Thomas Hardy

Ronald D. Morrison
Thomas Hardy Book PDF

Author : Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476673653

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Thomas Hardy by Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

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.

Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance

Jacqueline Dillion
Thomas Hardy Folklore and Resistance Book PDF

Author : Jacqueline Dillion
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137503206

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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.

Thomas Hardy

Tim Armstrong
Thomas Hardy Book PDF

Author : Tim Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317863205

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Thomas Hardy by Tim Armstrong Pdf

In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardy’s poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poet’s career by presenting the poems in the order in which they appeared in the Collected Poems of 1930, rather than re-ordering them thematically. Head notes to each poem give the reader information about its composition, publication, sources and metrical scheme; on-the-page notes list significant variants in Hardy’s manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardy’s notebooks, letters, and autobiography; and a bibliography suggests further reading. Tim Armstrong’s critical Introduction discusses Hardy’s career, his poetics, his use of memory and allusion and examines his position in the context of Victorian debates on aesthetics and belief. The generous selection of poems includes many lesser-known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary, and the important elegiac sequence ‘Poems of 1912-13’ is included in its entirety.

A Companion to Thomas Hardy

Keith Wilson
A Companion to Thomas Hardy Book PDF

Author : Keith Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,8 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

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

Rosemarie Morgan
The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy Book PDF

Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.

Thomas Hardy, Poet

Adrian Grafe,Laurence Estanove
Thomas Hardy Poet Book PDF

Author : Adrian Grafe,Laurence Estanove
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476620572

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Thomas Hardy, Poet by Adrian Grafe,Laurence Estanove Pdf

The poems of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) are key to understanding 19th, 20th and even 21st century poetry. This collection of fresh essays sheds new light on Hardy's poems--some of which have received little critical attention--from a variety of thematic and analytical approaches, offering a detailed picture of how his works are currently being read. The contributors discuss why Hardy's poetic genius is less and less overshadowed by his career as a novelist and highlight his passionate attention to small details, his delight in "noticing things" and his "eye for...mysteries."

Reading Thomas Hardy

George Levine
Reading Thomas Hardy Book PDF

Author : George Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107177963

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Reading Thomas Hardy by George Levine Pdf

Shaping Hardy's art: vision, class, and sex -- Hardy and Darwin: an enchanting Hardy? -- The mayor of Casterbridge: reversing the real interlude: Jude and the power of art -- From mindless matter to the art of the mind: The well-beloved -- The poetry of the novels

Thomas Hardy: The Poems

Gillian Steinberg
Thomas Hardy The Poems Book PDF

Author : Gillian Steinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137318381

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Thomas Hardy: The Poems by Gillian Steinberg Pdf

Gillian Steinberg offers an approachable introduction to the poems of one of the most prolific and influential English writers, through an examination of wide-ranging selections from his work. Part I of this invaluable study: - Provides clear and stimulating close readings of Thomas Hardy's key poems - Considers major themes in Hardy's poetry, including ghosts, God's role in the world, war, and the painful passage of time - Summarizes the methods of analysis and provides suggestions for further work Part II supplies essential background material, featuring: - An account of Hardy's life and works - Samples of criticism from important Hardy scholars With a helpful Further Reading section, this insightful volume is ideal for anyone who wishes to appreciate and explore Hardy's poetry for themselves.

Thomas Hardy and Empire

Jane L. Bownas
Thomas Hardy and Empire Book PDF

Author : Jane L. Bownas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317010456

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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’s Philosophical Influences in his Poetry

Indu Prabha Pathak
Thomas Hardy s Philosophical Influences in his Poetry Book PDF

Author : Indu Prabha Pathak
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668799523

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Thomas Hardy’s Philosophical Influences in his Poetry by Indu Prabha Pathak Pdf

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, , course: Ph.D., language: English, abstract: Thomas Hardy the reputed novelist, poet, playwright and story writer has made his presence felt in the literary arena in an emphatic manner. The aim of this study is to draw a new light in his poetic oeuvre to illuminate those aspects of his vision which were hitherto less known. He is primarily known as a novelist par excellence producing a bulk of masterpiece novels in English. At the same time he has written almost 900 lyrics which stand as a testimony to his poetic genius. In the words of Donald Davies, “In British Poetry of the last fifty years the most far reaching influence, for good and ill has been not Yeats, still less Eliot or Pound, not Lawrence, but Hardy.” (Davies 3) Poetry always remained very close to his heart. He primarily conceived himself as a poet. He himself confessed it: In fiction he felt, he was merely “holding his own”; poetry he said was the more individual part of his literary fruitage. He took up novel writing because he could not earn his livelihood as a poet and he returned to poetry as he had earned income from his novels. He agrees with Leslie Stephen who believes that: “The ultimate aim of the poet is to touch our hearts by showing his own.” (Qtd. in Harvey 228) Hardy started writing poetry at the age of 55. At the end of 1898 he published his first volume Wessex Poems which gained mixed critical reception. Friends like Swinburne and Leslie Stephens gave it a warm response. But at the same it produced acrimony in his married life that resulted in his estrangement with wife Emma to that extent that they lived apart with no children in the same house. Three years after the appearance of Wessex Poems Hardy was ready to publish his second volume of verses which he named as Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) containing 99 poems. The first group of poems was titled as War Poems which established him as the first major “War poet” of the 20th century. The poems were written in the context of Boer war and it’s aftereffects. The collection received a better response as compared to the previous one. [...]

Tennyson Among the Novelists

John Morton
Tennyson Among the Novelists Book PDF

Author : John Morton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441176622

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Tennyson Among the Novelists by John Morton Pdf

Until now, the study of literary allusion has focused on allusions made by poets to other poets. In Tennyson Among the Novelists, John Morton presents the first book-length account of the presence of a poet's work in works of prose fiction. As well as shedding new light on the poems of Tennyson and their reception history, Morton covers a wide variety of novelists including Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Andrew O'Hagan, offering a fresh look at their approach to writing. Morton shows how Tennyson's poetry, despite its frequent depreciation by critics, has survived as a vivifying presence in the novel from the Victorian period to the present day.

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy

Nilüfer Özgür
Hardy Deconstructing Hardy Book PDF

Author : Nilüfer Özgür
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351248617

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Hardy Deconstructing Hardy by Nilüfer Özgür Pdf

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.

Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy

Dr Eithne Henson
Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Bront George Eliot and Thomas Hardy Book PDF

Author : Dr Eithne Henson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409479079

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Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy by Dr Eithne Henson Pdf

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson discusses the influence of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, particularly on Brontë and Eliot, and argues that Ruskinian aesthetics, Darwinism, and other scientific preoccupations of an industrializing economy, changed constructions of landscape in the later nineteenth century. Henson examines the conventions of reading landscape, including the implied expectations of the reader, the question of the gendered narrator, how place defines the kind of action and characters in the novels, the importance of landscape in creating mood, the pastoral as a moral marker for readers, and the influence of changing aesthetic theory on the implied painterly models that the three authors reproduce in their work. She also considers how each writer defines the concept of Englishness against an internal or colonial Other. Alongside these concerns, Henson interrogates the ancient trope that equates woman with nature, and the effect of comparing women to natural objects or offering them as objects of the male gaze, typically to diminish or control them. Informed by close readings, Henson's study offers an original approach to the significances of landscape in the 'realist' nineteenth-century novel.

Hardy's Wessex Reappraised

Denys Kay-Robinson
Hardy s Wessex Reappraised Book PDF

Author : Denys Kay-Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015031239505

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Hardy's Wessex Reappraised by Denys Kay-Robinson Pdf

Wessex extended over parts of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Berkshire. This book deals largely with Dorset, but touches on some of the other areas.