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Author : Anna West
Release : 2017-04-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 173/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy and Animals by : Anna West
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Animals written by Anna West. This book was released on 2017-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy and Animals looks at creatures in Hardy's novels, examining human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities.
Author : Rıza Öztürk
Release : 2011-05-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives by : Rıza Öztürk
Download or read book Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives written by Rıza Öztürk. This book was released on 2011-05-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatment of Hardy’s tragic narratives under the objective lens of evolutionary literary theory has led to three basic findings: First, within the scope of the analysis of the five major tragic narratives, representation of Hardy’s evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, in terms of altruistic sympathy and compassion, shows that adapted parental investment in children indicates the reason why women submit to pain and suffering more than the men do. The costly investment of women in maternal behaviour leads to submission in many cases, but in return they gain better fitness for survival and reproduction than men. This is implicitly highlighted as a force of superiority in the tragedies studied, as the male characters often invest in heroic deeds over their children. Second, that which has for many years been identified as pessimism in Hardy’s tragic narratives is in fact a surface cognitive layer, under which is an implicit teaching of evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, which guides to a true fitness of human life. Third, sympathy and particularly compassion are not only human emotions but also adapted cognitive virtues that centre on ethical teaching. Thus, an integrated model of science and humanities for art and literary analysis is required to address not only those of English language and literature departments, but also those aligned to the idea of integrating the two methods. A scientific and objective view of human life is in opposition to postmodern and structuralist approaches, which have generally been considered as the centre of interest during the latter half of the 20th century.
Author : Alan G. Smith
Release : 2023-05-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 007/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition by : Alan G. Smith
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition written by Alan G. Smith. This book was released on 2023-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of England's rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardy's world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat.
Author : Ronald D. Morrison
Release : 2021-05-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 016/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy by : Ronald D. Morrison
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Ronald D. Morrison. This book was released on 2021-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a novelist before devoting his talents to writing poetry for the remainder of his life. This book focuses on Hardy's remarkable achievements as a novelist. Although Victorian readers considered some of his works controversial, his novels remained highly regarded. His novels still appear in the syllabi of courses in Victorian literature and the British novel, as well as courses in feminist/gender studies, environmental studies, and other topics. For scholars, students, and the general reader, this companion helps to makes Hardy's novels accessible by providing a detailed biography of Hardy, plot summaries of each novel, and analyses of the critical contexts surrounding them. Entries focus on the people, cultural forces, literary forms, and movements that influenced Hardy's novels. The companion also suggests approaches for original interpretations and suggestions for further study.
Author : Indy Clark
Release : 2016-04-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 028/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy's Pastoral by : Indy Clark
Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Pastoral written by Indy Clark. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.
