More Than a \u27Mere Painted Scene\u27: The Role of Theatricality and the Carnivalesque in \u27The Mayor of Casterbridge\u27

This essay examines the role of Thomas Hardy\u27s scenes of community theatre, drawing examples from Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Only in such scenes from The Mayor of Casterbridge does Hardy employ Mikhail Bakhtin\u27s carnivalesque, reversing the roles of the spectator and the creator of spectacle, the supporting cast and the lead actor, in order to magnify the fall of protagonist Michael Henchard

The Return of the Poor Man: Jude the Obscure and Late Victorian Socialism

This essay examines Hardy\u27s decision at the end of his career as a novelist to return to the striking socialistic themes which had defined his first (unpublished) novel. Jude the Obscure is Hardy\u27s exploration of the spiritual and intellectual deprivation that attends the condition of the working-class poor. While the novel was reviled at the time as blatantly anti-marriage, its fiercest polemic is reserved for the soul-destroying economic and social systems which continued to keep the class structure rigidly intact. While Hardy was never a socialist himself, his final novel has much in common with the numerous socialist and radical movements that were emerging, merging, and dissolving during the final decades of Victoria\u27s reign

Women in Thomas Hardy's novels : an interpretative study : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University

When one begins a study of the women in Hardy's novels one discovers critical views of great diversity. There are features of Hardy's work which received favourable comment then as now; his descriptions of nature for instance, and his rustic characters have appealed to most critics over the years. But his philosophical and social comment have drawn criticism ranging from the virulent to the scornful. In particular his attitude to and treatment of love and marriage relationships have been widely argued, and it is the women concerned who have been assessed in the most surprising and contradictory manner. The first critic of stature was Lionel Johnson¹Lionel Johnson, The Art of Thomas Hardy (1894). London, 1923, p.193. best known as a poet. In 1894 he wrote of Hardy's women: 'I cannot think that any of them is so powerfully conceived and drawn as are the best of the men;' but he adds that they provoke an 'amazed awe of their infinite ingenuities,' and quotes a remark of Swift's about the pleasure that a few words 'spoken plain by a parrot will give.' [FROM INTRODUCTION

Detecting sequential structure

Programming by demonstration requires detection and analysis of sequential patterns in a user’s input, and the synthesis of an appropriate structural model that can be used for prediction. This paper describes SEQUITUR, a scheme for inducing a structural description of a sequence from a single example. SEQUITUR integrates several different inference techniques: identification of lexical subsequences or vocabulary elements, hierarchical structuring of such subsequences, identification of elements that have equivalent usage patterns, inference of programming constructs such as looping and branching, generalisation by unifying grammar rules, and the detection of procedural substructure., Although SEQUITUR operates with abstract sequences, a number of concrete illustrations are provided

Moral Luck in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

Thomas Hardy is notorious for driving his characters into the grave with untimely chance and luck. This essay interprets his idiosyncrasy as an exploration of the problem of 'moral luck' to confront the reader with fundamental ethical questions. My examination of four cases of moral luck in Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and The Return of the Native shows that they produce different effects in the two novels and invite different ethical response due to genre differences; and embracing both versions of ethical experience will help the reader understand the nature of moral luck and moral judgment.published_or_final_versio

Os deícticos no discurso narrativo: demonstrativos e advérbios de lugar em "Far from the madding crowd"

É nosso propósito com o presente estudo verificar do emprego de algumas formas deícticas na ficção narrativa em língua inglesa, assim como do seu comportamento aquando da tradução para língua portuguesa. A centralidade das formas deícticas na construção da significação, atestada nas palavras de Fernanda Irene Fonseca, na afirmação de que a "função dos deícticos é condicionante da significação dos restantes signos linguísticos", bem como o facto de sempre se nos ter afigurado algo aleatória a motivação que leva autores e tradutores a optar por diferentes formas deícticas, nomeadamente as demonstrativas quando apontam para maior ou menor grau de proximidade em relação ao locutor e ao interlocutor, estão na base do nosso interesse por esta questão

UA35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university. Condis, Rebecca. Reconstituted Families: Counseling Concepts and Application Miller, Brad. Does Congress Effectively Regulate the Ethics of its Members? Grizzle, Dennis. Electron Microscopy of Polytrichum Moss Spores Collins, Lynell. Transformational Effects on Cytoskeleton and Cell-Surface Antigens Hamilton, Joy. A Summary of Flaws in Thomas Hardy\u27s Far From the Madding Crowd Martin, Lanna. Sadie F. Price: Artist, Botanist, Author and Naturalist Wood, Irene. The Imagery of Smoke, Fire and Ash: A Study of the Theme of Guilt and Sin in Great Expectations and Hard Times Hancock, Catherine. The Press and the Kennedy Debates of 1960 Mealy, J. Webb. Reconstructing the Rise and Fall of Modalism in Rom

UA35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university. Condis, Rebecca. Reconstituted Families: Counseling Concepts and Application Miller, Brad. Does Congress Effectively Regulate the Ethics of its Members? Grizzle, Dennis. Electron Microscopy of Polytrichum Moss Spores Collins, Lynell. Transformational Effects on Cytoskeleton and Cell-Surface Antigens Hamilton, Joy. A Summary of Flaws in Thomas Hardy\u27s Far From the Madding Crowd Martin, Lanna. Sadie F. Price: Artist, Botanist, Author and Naturalist Wood, Irene. The Imagery of Smoke, Fire and Ash: A Study of the Theme of Guilt and Sin in Great Expectations and Hard Times Hancock, Catherine. The Press and the Kennedy Debates of 1960 Mealy, J. Webb. Reconstructing the Rise and Fall of Modalism in Rom

'"Deeds of darkness": Thomas Hardy and murder'

Critics have often sought to place Thomas Hardy’s fiction within a realist generic framework, with a significant emphasis on Hardy’s Wessex settings, visual imagination and equation of sight with knowledge. Yet Hardy’s writings frequently disturb realist generic conventions by introducing elements from popular nineteenth-century genres, particularly sensation fiction and the Gothic. This essay considers how murder as a plot device troubles generic boundaries in the novels Desperate Remedies (1871), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891). Set against backgrounds with significant non-realist elements, these texts view murder and its punishment from limited, distorted or averted perspectives that articulate a significant social and cultural critique