The Complete Critical Guide To Thomas Hardy

Author : Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415234917
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy written by Geoffrey Harvey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.

Author : Rajsherkhar Parihar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789383026487
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy written by Rajsherkhar Parihar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134565364
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Geoffrey Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.

Author : Lascelles Abercrombie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Lascelles Abercrombie and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317041283
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy written by Rosemarie Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Simon Avery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309443
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure written by Simon Avery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Cedric Watts
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy: 'Tess of the d'Urbevilles' written by Cedric Watts and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-ordinating theme of this study is that Hardy designed Tess of the d'Urbervilles to be controversial, and it has surpassed his design. An initial biographical chapter relates Tess to Hardy's career: the novel caused scandal but brought him wealth. Next, the work's process of composition is discussed, and differences between the censored serial and the book versions are explained. An analysis of the plot gives particular attention to its ironic strategies, and a further section deals with problematic aspects of characterisation, including the views of the narrator. Various themes and contexts are explored, notably Hardy's attitudes to religion, evolution, politics and sexuality. There follows a discussion of selected literary aspects: naturalism and realism, leitmotifs and thematic patterns, optical effects and defamiliarisation, and the use of specialised vocabularies. Hardy's descriptive powers when rendering the rural world receive particular analysis. A critical survey then summarises critical approaches to this novel between Hardy's day and the present.

Author : Peter Widdowson
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 0746311699
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Peter Widdowson and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jane L. Bownas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010450
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Empire written by Jane L. Bownas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : K. Ireland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137367725
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative written by K. Ireland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and Modernist eras.