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Social Influences on the Female in the Novels of Thomas Hardy.
… 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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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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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