Alternative Hardy

Author(s)

• Butler, Lance St. John

Bibliographic Information

Alternative Hardy

edited and introduced by Lance St. John Butler

Macmillan, 1989

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In recent years and particularly since the development of a poststructuralist critical language, Hardy's work has been surprisingly rediscovered. This collection of essays applies these new insights and this new language in ways that reveal unexpected possibilities.

Table of Contents

• The violence of style in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", J.J.Lecercle
• ill wit and sick tragedy - "Jude the Obscure", C.Brooke-Rose
• provisional narratives - Hardy's final trilogy, P.Ingham
• she, to him, H.Jacobson
• Hardy's fictional process and his emotional life, M.Rabiger
• prosopopoeia in Hardy and Stevens, J.Hillis Miller
• Buddhist tendencies in Hardy's poetry, J.C.Dave
• a flame unseen - the mystery at the heart of Hardy's vision, L.S.Butler
• Hardy's alternatives in "The Woodlanders", chapter 39, H.Quere and J.Senechal
• Thomas Hardy and J.M.W.Turner, A.Escuret.

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Details

• NCID: BA07322610
• ISBN:
  • 0333427696
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 229 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR4754
  • UDC : 820-3
  • DC19 : 823/.8
  • NDC8 : 930.28
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Fiction in English. Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 - Critical studies
  • BLSH : Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation