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Hardy the Writer - Surveys and Assessments

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Informationen zum Autor F.B.PINION Klappentext These essays are arranged progressively to indicate Hardy's development as a writer and thinker, and to present the major aspects of his work as a whole, linking the poetry and the prose at all appropriate stages. They suggest that 'his formative thought, the product of a period of conflict between new scientific philosophy and humanism on the one hand, and traditional Christian theology combined with Victorian restraints on the other, developed when England was not as intellectually provincial as Matthew Arnold had affirmed. Above all, they illustrate the extent to which the creative imagination and the style of Hardy the writer were stimulated and strengthened by literary influences...'. Important references are made throughout to his Life and Collected Letters. Zusammenfassung These essays are arranged progressively to indicate Hardy's development as a writer and thinker! and to present the major aspects of his work as a whole! linking the poetry and the prose at all appropriate stages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface - The Ranging Vision - Hardy and George Eliot - Psychological Pictorialism - Two on a Tower - Mephistophelian and Satanic - The Uniqueness of The Woodlanders - Philosophy in Fiction - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Hebraism and Hellenism - Hardy and Mrs Henniker - Jude the Obscure: Origins in Life and Literature - The Well-Beloved - Fictional Autobiography - Hardy's Novel-Endings - Symbolism - Hardy as a Thinker - Literary Allusion and Indebtedness - The Hero of The Dynasts - Reflections on Hardy's Poetry - At the Year's End - Notes - Index

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Preface - The Ranging Vision - Hardy and George Eliot - Psychological Pictorialism - Two on a Tower - Mephistophelian and Satanic - The Uniqueness of The Woodlanders - Philosophy in Fiction - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Hebraism and Hellenism - Hardy and Mrs Henniker - Jude the Obscure: Origins in Life and Literature - The Well-Beloved - Fictional Autobiography - Hardy's Novel-Endings - Symbolism - Hardy as a Thinker - Literary Allusion and Indebtedness - The Hero of The Dynasts - Reflections on Hardy's Poetry - At the Year's End - Notes - Index

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Authors F Pinion, F. Pinion, F. B. Pinion
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 05.03.1990
 
EAN 9780333473627
ISBN 978-0-333-47362-7
No. of pages 371
Series Surveys and Assessments
Surveys and Assessments
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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