Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies

Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies
Title Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies PDF eBook
Author T. Dolin
Publisher Springer
Pages 240
Release 2004-04-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 023038966X

Download Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.

Literature and Modern Time

Literature and Modern Time
Title Literature and Modern Time PDF eBook
Author Trish Ferguson
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 282
Release 2020-05-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3030292789

Download Literature and Modern Time Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Literature and Modern Time is a collection of essays that explore literature in the context of a wave of challenges to linear conceptions of time introduced by thinkers such as Bergson, Einstein, McTaggart, Freud and Nietzsche. These challenges were not uniform in character. The volume will demonstrate that literature of the era under scrutiny was not simply reacting to new theories of time—in some cases it is actually inspiring and anticipating them. Thus Literature and Modern Time promises to offer a genuine dialogue between literature and time theory and in doing so will uncover and examine influences and connections— sometimes unexpected—between philosophers and writers of the era. It will examine literary attempts to transcend and escape time and also challenge rupture-based accounts of modernist time by demonstrating that literary texts commonly associated with brokenness, decline or stasis, also, at the same time, maintain faith in healing, renewal and mobility. This collection contains interdisciplinary research of the quite highest kind - to see so many different kinds of time - narrative, historical, mechanical, subjective, non-linear time, myth and nostalgia - as well as time/space discussed here is very stimulating indeed. Professor Simon James

Modern Literature and the Tragic

Modern Literature and the Tragic
Title Modern Literature and the Tragic PDF eBook
Author K. M. Newton
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 192
Release 2008-06-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0748636749

Download Modern Literature and the Tragic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht. By contrast, writers such as Hardy and Conrad, influenced by Schopenhauerean pessimism and Darwinism, attempt to modernise the concept of the tragic. Nietzsche's revisionist interpretation of the tragic influenced writers who either take pessimism or the 'Dionysian' commitment to life to an extreme, as in Strindberg and D. H. Lawrence. Different views emerge in the period following the second world war with the 'Theatre of the Absurd' and postmodern anti-foundationalism.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy
Title The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 712
Release 2016-03-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317041283

Download The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode

Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode
Title Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode PDF eBook
Author R. Nemesvari
Publisher Springer
Pages 419
Release 2011-04-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0230118844

Download Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.'

Thomas Hardy and Empire

Thomas Hardy and Empire
Title Thomas Hardy and Empire PDF eBook
Author Jane L. Bownas
Publisher Routledge
Pages 188
Release 2016-02-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317010450

Download Thomas Hardy and Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Thomas Hardy in Context

Thomas Hardy in Context
Title Thomas Hardy in Context PDF eBook
Author Phillip Mallett
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 569
Release 2013-03-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139618911

Download Thomas Hardy in Context Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to the social and political challenges of his time; his engagement with contemporary intellectual debate; and his legacy in the twentieth century and after. Emphasising the subtle and ongoing interaction between Hardy's life, his creative achievement and the unique historical moment, the collection also examines Hardy's relationship to such issues as class, education, folklore, archaeology and anthropology, evolution, marriage and masculinity, empire and the arts. A valuable contextual reference for scholars of Victorian and modernist literature, the collection will also prove accessible for the general reader of Hardy.