Reading Hardy's Landscapes
Reading Hardy's Landscapes

Author: M. Irwin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-03-23

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0230597920

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Reading Hardy's Landscapes locates the essential energy of the novels in the descriptive details as much as in the story. The emphasis is on the author's habits of vision and imagination. It is instinctive in Hardy to locate his tales between the huge abstractions of time and space and the minute particularities of nature - a leaf, a minnow, a gnat. His human dramas unfold in a landscape and are part of that landscape, caught up in larger patterns of movement and change.

Landscape and Literature
Landscape and Literature

Author: Stephen Siddall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-05-21

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0521729823

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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Landscape and Literature introduces students to the exploration of different ways in which landscape has been represented in literature. It focuses on key aspects of this topic such as the importance of pastoral, contrasts between city and country, eighteenth-century developments from neo-classical to picturesque and Romantic ideas of the sublime, regional novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and varied styles of twentieth-century poetry from the Georgian poets to Heaney and Hughes. Poems and prose extracts from writers such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence and Seamus Heaney are included.

Engaged Urbanism
Engaged Urbanism

Author: Ben Campkin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1786731665

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Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, Engaged Urbanism demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations are being rigorously and creatively addressed.

Reading Thomas Hardy
Reading Thomas Hardy

Author: George Levine

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1316834018

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This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an overview of Hardy's entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels including his last, The Well-Beloved. Levine draws new attention to the way Hardy absorbed both the ideas and the writing strategies of Charles Darwin, and develops new perspectives first articulated in the criticism of great novelists - in particular Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Levine departs from the critical norm by reading Hardy in the context of his deep feeling for the natural world and all living things, and the implicit affirmation of life that sometimes drives his bleakest narratives.

Landscapes of Southern Tenerife and la Gomera
Landscapes of Southern Tenerife and la Gomera

Author: Noel Rochford

Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781856912181

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A car-touring and walking guide to southern Tenerife and La Gomera. There are topographical walking maps and a fold-out touring map. Many short walks for motorists are suggested, along with recommendations of areas for picnics. This edition has been revised by a tour operator and walking guide.