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Author: Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780415234917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas 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: Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2003-03-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9786610022335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work. It includes the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critical map of Hardy's complete writing an outline of the vast body of criticism that has built up around Hardy's work with examples of recent critical debate. Both exposition and guide, this volume enables students to form their own readings of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century.
Author: Rajsherkhar Parihar
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789383026487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-08
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1134565356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works the dynamics of social, intellectual and aesthetic change in nineteenth-century England. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work, including: the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critical map of Hardy's complete writing an outline of the vast body of criticism that has built up around Hardy's work with examples of recent critical debate. Exposition and guide, this volume enables readers to form their own readings of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century.
Author: Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-08
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1134565364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas 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: R. G. Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 1134781245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Author: Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 1317041283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Timothy Hands
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1995-10-11
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1349242128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Hardy made a reputation in more than one genre and in more than one period, and he has constantly given rise to widely differing critical responses. This study ranges in time from Hardy's response to Romanticism through to an examination of his diverse fortunes at the hands of critics from Hardy's own time to the present day. His achievement is examined through his various forms - his letters, autobiography, novels, poems and personal writings - and set in the context of the work of those whom he knew or admired. Timothy Hands surveys Hardy's ideas, his views on society and his remarkable knowledge of the contemporary arts. The book offers to specialist, student and general reader alike an authoritative yet readable guide through the biographical, literary and critical mazes surrounding Hardy's life and work.
Author: Cedric Watts
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Simon Avery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-11-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1350309443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
