Thomas Hardy by John Goode
The popularity enjoyed by Hardy's novels to this day, this work argues, is no mere relish for well-told stories. What is so arresting about his novels is their deeply-founded, and long worked-for questioning of gender, class, form and theory. These attitudes evolved through deliberate "writerly" strategies. With these Hardy learned to deal with not just his position as a professional "writer" but with the ideological and material implications of having arisen from a subordinate class. John Goode shows how Hardy's novels shifted their initially subversive posture, cautiously teasing possibilities out of the dominant culture he opposed, towards one of open confrontation. Using close textual analysis, a sharpened sense of Hardy's context, and modern critical techniques, John Goode outlines the formal and political shape of Hardy's changing fictional practice. The novels, Goode suggests, stand or fall on the commitment they show to the people and the ideas most oppressed and victimised by the culture, from which, paradoxically, he drew his first reading public. This is the unacknowledged Hardy that modern readers turn to, a Hardy brought into controversial relief by this close rereading. This book should be of interest to students and specialists in English literature, as well as Hardy enthusiasts.
Goode, John: - John Goode is a member of the class of '88 from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, specializing in incantations and spoken spells. At the age of fourteen, he proudly represented District 13 in the 65th Panem games, where he was disqualified for crying uncontrollably before the competition began. After that he moved to Forks, Washington, where against all odds he dated the hot, incredibly approachable werewolf instead of the stuck-up jerk of a vampire, but was crushed when he found out the werewolf was actually gayer than he was. After that he turned down the mandatory operation everyone must receive at sixteen to become pretty, citing that everyone pretty was just too stupid to live, before moving away for greener pastures. After falling down an oddly large rabbit hole, he became huge when his love for cakes combined with his inability to resist the commands of sparsely worded notes, and was finally kicked out when he began playing solitaire with the Red Queen's 4th armored division. By eighteen he had found the land in the back of his wardrobe, but decided that thinly veiled religious allegories were not the neighbors he desired. When last seen, he had become obsessed with growing a pair of wings after discovering Fang's blog and hasn't been seen since. Or he is this guy who lives in this place and writes stuff he hopes you read. Twitter: @fosterhigh Facebook: www.facebook.com/TalesFromFosterHigh
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631139539 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631139532 |
| Title | Thomas Hardy |
| Author | John Goode |
| Series | Re-Reading Literature S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1988-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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