Titlebook: Hardy the Writer; Surveys and Assessme F. B. Pinion Book 1990 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990 English l

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,Hardy’s Novel-Endings,ster writes in .. If not jaundiced, the view is too dismissive; it might seem to suggest that most of Hardy’s endings can hardly be regarded as successful or commendable. Forster thinks the use of marriage as a finale in fiction is ‘idiotic’, though it could have been anything but that for editors o

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Symbolism,think his later writing benefited more from his assiduous study of the poets, and the plays of Shakespeare, from 1865 to 1867. than from his own practice of verse-writing. In his fiction his sensitivity to the imagery and colour of poetry is evident from the first. Frost symbolism occurs occasionall

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Hardy as a Thinker,y fixed. Just what he read in the years immediately following his departure from home for London in April 1862 is not known; what evidence exists is scattered, but it suggests that he devoted much time first to literature (chiefly poetry), then to philosophy. He had clearly made a study of much scie

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Literary Allusion and Indebtedness,raries, there would be a small balance in my favour’, Goethe told Eckermann. Hardy made no such general admission; he indicated writers who were great masters and examplars to him, and emphasized that he was a ‘born bookworm’. That, and ‘that alone’, was unchanging in him, he added (at the opening o

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,Reflections on Hardy’s Poetry, in 1885 that his approval was ‘disapproval minimized’) on the pleasure he had found in reading ., told him how he had ‘a(chǎn)dmired the poetry which was diffused through the prose’ when . came out under his serial editorship. In Hardy’s fiction from the first, and very strikingly in ., it was to remain,

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adding ‘but the familiar is not necessarily the known’ (15). Subsequently he highlights its ‘. [which] is a category of everyday life, and perhaps an essential category. It never exhausts its reality; from the ambiguity of consciousness and situations spring forth actions, events, results, without w

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F. B. PinionDiscourse Analysis of these textbooks, we demonstrate the textbook authors’ privileging of the male, able-bodied worker who is neither too young nor too old to be a “productive” employee. Older and younger workers were situated as falling outside this “ideal” age range and so were characterized as b