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Klappentext Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has transformed the way we read and think. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the work of Hardy! Lawrence! Conrad! Joyce! Forster and Woolf! this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has transformed the way we read and think. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: "I was the world in which I walked" - the tranformation of the British novel; the narrator as character in Hardy's major fiction; beginnings and endings in Hardy's major fiction; speaking of Paul Morel - voice, unity and meaning in "Sons and Lovers"; Lawrence's quest in "The Rainbow"; the originality of E.M.Forster. Part 2: the case for humanistic formalism; modes of literary inquiry - a primer for humanistic formalism; reading Conrad's "Lord Jim" - reading text, reading lives; "tell us in plain words" - an introduction to reading Joyce's "Ulysses"; reading Virginia Woolf - "Mrs Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse".
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Part 1: "I was the world in which I walked" - the tranformation of the British novel; the narrator as character in Hardy's major fiction; beginnings and endings in Hardy's major fiction; speaking of Paul Morel - voice, unity and meaning in "Sons and Lovers"; Lawrence's quest in "The Rainbow"; the originality of E.M.Forster. Part 2: the case for humanistic formalism; modes of literary inquiry - a primer for humanistic formalism; reading Conrad's "Lord Jim" - reading text, reading lives; "tell us in plain words" - an introduction to reading Joyce's "Ulysses"; reading Virginia Woolf - "Mrs Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse".
