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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... philosophical ' writer in that his writing is seen both to ' con- tain ideas ' and to be the aesthetic elaboration ... philosophy must be reflected in the literature of to - day .... An utterly unphilo- sophical literature ... would be ...
... philosophical ' writer in that his writing is seen both to ' con- tain ideas ' and to be the aesthetic elaboration ... philosophy must be reflected in the literature of to - day .... An utterly unphilo- sophical literature ... would be ...
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... philosophy ' . Hardy's perception of the purposelessness of existence determined his tragic view of life as well as his ' resignation ' , his acceptance of the inevitable and , like Shakespeare , he regarded the ' manifestation of a ...
... philosophy ' . Hardy's perception of the purposelessness of existence determined his tragic view of life as well as his ' resignation ' , his acceptance of the inevitable and , like Shakespeare , he regarded the ' manifestation of a ...
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... philosophical mind , and ... he was incapable of any real thinking ' , and that whenever his philosophy obtrudes on our attention ' it becomes tedious and unconvincing ' and A. P. Elliott , while agreeing with this view writing that ...
... philosophical mind , and ... he was incapable of any real thinking ' , and that whenever his philosophy obtrudes on our attention ' it becomes tedious and unconvincing ' and A. P. Elliott , while agreeing with this view writing that ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Production of Wessex | 35 |
Workfolk | 60 |
Derechos de autor | |
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