Thomas Hardy - Couverture souple

Hardy, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571226736 ISBN 13 : 9780571226733

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspection's, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies and nature poems and in his major characters from Gabriel Oak to Tess and Jude. The themes and forms examined by Barbara Hardy include narrative, conversation, gossip, memory, gender, poetry of place and imaginative thresholds. Altogether the study is a lucid and accessible introduction, which locates Hardy's place in the tradition of English literature.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Thomas Hardy, (1840 – 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. He gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) In this book: Tess of the d'Urbervilles Far from the Madding Crowd The Mayor of Casterbridge

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0571226736
• ISBN 13: 9780571226733
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176