Thomas Hardy Towards A Materialist Criticism

Author : George Wotton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0389205648

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Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism by George Wotton Pdf

Challenging the generally accepted critical constructions of the novels of Thomas Hardy, this book explores the historical, social, aesthetic and ideological determinants of Hardy's novels. Analyzing the ways in which Hardy's writings have been variously reproduced in literary criticism to produce certain social and ideological effects. Wotton also discusses the relation between Hardy's writing and Hardy criticism.

Author : Dale Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521566924

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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy by Dale Kramer Pdf

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.

Author : Birgit Plietzsch
Publisher : Tenea Verlag Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Culture in literature
ISBN : 9783865040459

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The Novels of Thomas Hardy as a Product of Nineteenth Century Social, Economic, and Cultural Change by Birgit Plietzsch Pdf

Author : Simon Avery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137021687

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Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure by Simon Avery Pdf

This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the texts and explores the diverse range of interpretations produced by different theoretical approaches.

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 : Jane L. Bownas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

Author : P. Mallett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.

Author : R. Nemesvari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230118843

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Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode by R. Nemesvari Pdf

The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.'

Author : Tim Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,8 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.

Author : C. Pettit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349233946

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New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy by C. Pettit Pdf

New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy is a lively and varied collection of new essays on Thomas Hardy, contributed by some of the world's leading Hardy scholars. The essays range widely over Hardy's work, thought, creative methods and life, and show a variety of critical approaches. The essays collected here will appeal equally to scholars, students and non-academic Hardy enthusiasts.

Author : Edward Neill
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157113140X

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Trial by Ordeal by Edward Neill Pdf

Trial by Ordeal takes a sharp look at central aspects of the critical reception of Thomas Hardy. It demonstrates how critical appropriations of Hardy's work often provide a simplifying, conventional, or conservative image of the writer, which a sophisticated view of his creative intentions by no means confirms. Edward Neill discusses the dangers inherent in interpreting Hardy's writings in terms of his life; the limitations of criticism that views his work as nostalgic reaction; approaches to the poetry; and the critical response to Jude the Obscure.

Author : C. Pettit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349266579

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Reading Thomas Hardy by C. Pettit Pdf

The wide-ranging and lively essays in Reading Thomas Hardy will appeal to anyone interested in Hardy. Specialists and Hardy enthusiasts will find a showcase for the work of many of the world's leading Hardy scholars. Subjects covered include Hardy the writer and Hardy the man, individual texts and wider themes, and Hardy's relationships to other artists. Whether presenting new research, embodying the best of traditional approaches, or challenging the reader with new interpretations, all the papers are authoritative and accessible.

Author : Karin Koehler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319291024

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Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication by Karin Koehler Pdf

This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication – especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy’s novels, short stories, and poems, it ties together a wide range of subjects: technological and infrastructural developments; material culture; individual subjectivity and the construction of identity; the relationship between private experience and social conventions; and the new narrative possibilities suggested by modern modes of communication.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.