Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative [electronic resource] : A Narratological Approach to his Novels /
Ireland, K.author.
How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and Modernist eras.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations and Editions; Introduction; 1 Trainspotting in Wessex: Temporal Transparency in Desperate Remedies; 2 Seasonal and Serial Time: Under the Greenwood Tree and A Pair of Blue Eyes; 3 By Sword or by Crook: Cross-Plotting in Far from the Madding Crowd; 4 Comic Rhythms and Narrative Tangents in The Hand of Ethelberta; 5 From Jewels to Furze: Transience and Permanence in The Return of the Native; 6 Martial Music: Time-Signatures in The Trumpet-Major; 7 Ancient and Modern Revised? Conflicting Values in A Laodicean
8 The Better Heaven Beneath: Revenges of Time in Two on a Tower9 Legacy Issues: The Power of Temporal Ellipsis in The Mayor of Casterbridge; 10 Sylvan Time and Natural Semiotics in The Woodlanders; 11 Phases of Life and Cycles of Time in Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 12 Temporal Janus: Retrospects and Prospects in Jude the Obscure; 13 Triple Time: Avices and Devices in The Well-Beloved; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and Modernist eras.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
British literature.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.