Author: Lucy Lockwood HazardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Thomas Hardy as a Dramatic Novelist
Author: Lucy Lockwood HazardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A General Drama of Pain
Author: Bernard J. ParisPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 141284598X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy's three most widely read novelsâTess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscureâhighlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art. Bernard J. Paris shows Hardy's genius in creating imagined human beings. He demonstrates that while Hardy tends to blame external conditions for his characters' painful fates, their downfalls are due to a very complex combination of cosmic, social, and psychological factors. Hardy's characters are usually discussed primarily in thematic terms. The characters are are so richly portrayed, Paris argues, that they can be better understood independent of Hardy's interpretations, in motivational terms and he utilizes the psychologist Karen Horney's theories to recover Hardy's intuitions. The characters are full of inner conflicts that make them difficult to fathom, but the approach Paris employs explains their contradictions and illuminates their troubled relationshipsâshedding light on these expertly crafted imagined human beings. This psychological approach to Hardy's characters enables us to understand his characters and gain insight into the implied authors of the works. In addition, the approach shows Hardy's authorial personality. We can see that Hardy treats some defensive strategies more sympathetically than others. Given his view of life as âa general drama of pain,â resignation, like that of Hardy's character Elizabeth-Jane, is the strategy he prefers.
Thomas Hardy
Author: J. B. BullenPublisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781011222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A study of the fictious world in Hardy’s novels in relation to real places and Hardy’s real-life experiences. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this ‘partly real, partly dream-country’ was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born. J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today. Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work. Praise for Thomas Hardy “Take pleasure in a book like this one, which skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy’s life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them. . . . The pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes.” —Review 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Author: Thomas HardyJude the Obscure
Author: Thomas HardyBest of Thomas Hardy.
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781904605850
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
This audiobook features the works of Thomas Hardy. The three novels included are 'Far From The Madding Crowd', 'Tess of the D'Urbevilles', and 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Thomas Hardy: Psychological Novelist
Author: Rosemary SumnerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349085774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Under the Greenwood Tree
Author: Thomas HardyTragedy in the Victorian Novel
Author: Jeannette KingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521216708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
How does one dominant literary genre fall into decline, to be superseded by another? The classic instance is the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century, and how it came to embody the tragic vision of life which had previously been the domain of drama. Dr King focuses on three novelists, George Eliot. Thomas Hardy and Henry James. All three, while trying to offer a realistic picture of life in prose narrative, wrote with the concept of tragedy clearly in mind. The concern was widespread, and Victorian literary critics found themselves discussing the problem of how one might reconcile concepts as dissimilar as tragedy and realism. Their criticism provides Dr King with her starting point. Dr King examines the work of her three authors in relation to the large concepts of traditional tragic thought, and also examines how the form of specific novels was affected by their differing ideas of tragedy.