Reading Thomas Hardy

ISBN-13: 9781316630808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 162 str.

George Levine

Opis

A powerful new account of Hardy's novels by a leading scholar, emphasizing their affirmative elements and their often poetic prose.

Recenzje

'A wide range of readers will be attracted by the accessible style, moderate length, and reasonable price of Reading Thomas Hardy. Those less familiar with Hardy criticism will benefit from Levine's adept summaries of some of the major areas of debate, which cover questions of realism, style, respectability, narrative position, and observation. But, above all, this book will bring into critical view a more dynamic understanding of Hardy - a writer whose attentiveness to the natural world re-enchants his readers.' Jonathan Godshaw Memel, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

1. Shaping Hardy's art: vision, class, and sex; 2. Hardy and Darwin: an enchanting Hardy?; 3. The Mayor of Casterbridge: reversing the real; Interlude: Jude and the power of art; 4. From mindless matter to the art of the mind: The Well-Beloved; 5. The poetry of the novels.