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Download full textPouralifard, Akram; Ahmadi, Moslem – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The focus of this research is in the area of the relationship between linguistics and the Victorian literature. Such a study is important in order to demonstrate how the masterpieces of Victorian literature possess the potential to be studied according to the principles of linguistics and how the motives behind many characters' activities can be…
Descriptors: Victorian Literature, Linguistics, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
Saleh, Nafiseh Salman; Abbasi, Pyeaam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Heralded as a sympathizer with the oppressed nineteenth century femininity, Thomas Hardy adopted an aggressive stance towards the institutionalized codes of the time, particularly the ideal of femininity which results in presenting him as one of the promethean forerunners of "New Woman" fiction. His outspoken attitudes are tangible in…
Descriptors: Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Literary Devices, Victorian Literature
Saleh, Nafiseh Salman; Abbasi, Pyeaam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
As a prolific nineteenth-century novelist, Thomas Hardy witnessed how women were treated as well as the dreadful conditions in which they lived. Well aware of the nineteenth-century limitations on femininity, Hardy stood for women's downtrodden rights. Henceforth, so as to examine Hardy's personal thoughts and impressions towards the prevailing…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Females
Goldstein, Norma Walrath – 1989
Proposing that Thomas Hardy's fiction exhibits strong Gothic sensibilities which offer insight into his artistic vision and add to the power of his fiction, creating a new form of the Gothic, a Victorian Gothic, this dissertation reassesses the Gothic strains in Hardy's fiction. The dissertation is in eight chapters: (1) Introduction to Hardy's…
Descriptors: English Literature, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Hewitt, Douglas – 1972
This book considers the right and the wrong ways to approach different types of novels. Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" is the starting point for chapters dealing with the conventions of realism as they are revealed in the presentation of characters, in the novelists' language, and in the tension between the autonomy of character and the demands…
Descriptors: Characterization, English, Language Usage, Literary Criticism
Edwards, Suzanne O. – 1987
Because of its wide range of justifiable interpretations, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is an appropriate novel to use to help students become better critical readers. Scholarly criticism continues to debate the topic of Tess's character, yet recent feminist and deconstructionist approaches, as well as recently published…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices, Nineteenth Century Literature
Weintraub, Stanley, Ed. – 1967
The selections in this collection pertain to the predicaments faced by the biographer who must discover what he believes is the truth and then use this material to create a work of compelling interest. Arnold L. Fein, J. H. Plumb, and Hesketh Pearson present observations on the biographer's dilemma: the difficulty of determining the borderline…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature
