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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"The Return Of The Native"”.
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Social Influences on the Female in the Novels of Thomas Hardy.
… in Thomas Hardy’s novels clearly illustrate one of the Victorian stereotypes of women: the proper, submissive housewife or the rebellious, independent dreamer. Hardy does not demonstrate how women should be, but rather how society pressures women to conform to the accepted image. Hardy progresses …
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Serialisation, Settings, Characters: a comparative case study of gender roles in society, as addressed in selected novels by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Edith Wharton
The principal concern of this thesis is the extent to which male and female characters in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native (1878), Henry James’s The Europeans (1878) and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920) succeed in contributing to, or halting, the processes of change in their …
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Thomas Hardy's experiments in narrative discourse in five tragic novels
Hardy's tragic novels are examined in the context of Mikhail Bakhtin's writings on architectonic and dialogic modes of discourse in novels. Bakhtin uses the concept of architectonics to describe an author's struggle within a literary text to give artistic unity to his protagonist's experiences. …
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Protection of the self, compassion toward the other : Thomas Hardy examined through folk theory of mind.
… I am using a conceptual framework known as Folk Theory of Mind to shed new insights on Thomas Hardy's five most well‐known novels: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Folk Theory of Mind is an area of …
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Evaluation of Topsoil Substitutes for Restoration of Appalachian Hardwoods on Strip Mined Land
… surface mine reclamation in Appalachia involves returning the land to approximate original contour by grading the surface and planting grasses and early-successional trees. This results in a greatly altered ecosystem compared to the native forest that was there prior to mining. The reclaimed land …
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Ghostly Sounds and Questions of Belief in Thomas Hardy and Walter de la Mare
… (1873-1956) share numerous reciprocal echoes in their works, especially at the height of their literary activities in the early twentieth century. Despite their singular admiration for each other and strikingly similar working methods, their mutual influence has never been explored. This thesis …
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The theme of alienation in the major novels of Thomas Hardy
The predicament of human isolation and alienation is a pervasive theme that has not been sufficiently studied in Thomas Hardy's fiction. This study investigates the theme of alienation focussing on Hardy's major novels. Although the term 'alienation' is one of the most outstanding features of this …
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Structure and meaning in Hardy's fiction: an examination of three major novels
<p>Thus, though there is a considerable amount of criticism on [Thomas Hardy’s] novels, there is a clear absence of any significant close structural reading. The study which follows proposes to fill this gap offering an examination of three novels that is neither synoptically nor microscopically …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
… an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms