Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist CriticismChallenging the generally accepted critical constructions of the novels of Thomas Hardy, this book explores the historical, social, aesthetic and ideological determinants of Hardy's novels. Analyzing the ways in which Hardy's writings have been variously reproduced in literary criticism to produce certain social and ideological effects. Wotton also discusses the relation between Hardy's writing and Hardy criticism. |
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Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
The Radical Separation | 15 |
The Discourses of Hegemony | 26 |
The Ideology of the Thinking World and the Production of Wessex | 35 |
The Aesthetic Project and the Community of Labour | 46 |
The Sovereignty of the Subject and the World of the Workfolk | 60 |
The Structure of Perceptions | 77 |
Moments of Vision | 89 |
Being and Consciousness The Imaginary Resolution | 132 |
Separation and Evaluation Thomas Hardys Curiously Qualified Greatness | 145 |
Revelation Chance Change and the Reproduction of Thomas Hardy | 156 |
The Production of Meaning Hardys Women and the Eternal Feminine | 170 |
Exclusion and Repression The Choric Rumination of Hardys Charming Puppets | 184 |
Thomas Hardy and the Reproduction of the Relations of Production | 194 |
Conclusion | 208 |
Notes | 214 |
The Radical Separation and the Conflict of Perceptions | 112 |
The Appearance of Women and the Construction of Woman | 122 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Autor | George Wotton |
| Editor | Rowman & Littlefield, 1985 |
| ISBN | 0389205648, 9780389205647 |
| Largo | 233 páginas |
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