Thomas Hardy's Oxford English Dictionary
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Release : 1980
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Author : C. Pettit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349266574
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.
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Release : 1911
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Author : F. B. Pinion
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349091367
This dictionary provides explanations of references and words used with rare meanings, sources of quotations and allusions, identifications of fictional places and people, major symbols and important influences with critical comments on all Hardy's novels, short stories and poetry.
Author : Anna West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131683431X
Thomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy's novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy's representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.
Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521196485
This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.
Author : F. Outwin Saxelby
Publisher : London : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
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Author : F. B. Pinion
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Wessex (England)
ISBN : 9780814766101
Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350309435
No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry.
Author : Jacqueline Dillion
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137503203
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.