Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist CriticismGill and Macmillan, 1985 - 233 páginas Challenging 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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... Wessex itself . I suggest thinking of Wessex not as a ' place ' but as a whole complex of relations which go to make up the ' world ' of Hardy's writing . Of course Hardy drew on his own experience of rural Dorset , on local history and ...
... Wessex itself . I suggest thinking of Wessex not as a ' place ' but as a whole complex of relations which go to make up the ' world ' of Hardy's writing . Of course Hardy drew on his own experience of rural Dorset , on local history and ...
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... Wessex becomes merely the fictional representative of Dorset . And if , on a grander scale , Wessex is seen as the ' back- ground ' against which , or the ' stage ' upon which , the conflicts between Man and Nature , free will and ...
... Wessex becomes merely the fictional representative of Dorset . And if , on a grander scale , Wessex is seen as the ' back- ground ' against which , or the ' stage ' upon which , the conflicts between Man and Nature , free will and ...
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... Wessex ( as opposed to Dorset ) denotes more than a number of specific activities ; it has an ideal , essential value over and above its productive value , a value which is realized in association . In Wessex it is only that mode of ...
... Wessex ( as opposed to Dorset ) denotes more than a number of specific activities ; it has an ideal , essential value over and above its productive value , a value which is realized in association . In Wessex it is only that mode of ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Production of Wessex | 35 |
Workfolk | 60 |
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