Mark Asquith

Broschiertes Buch

Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music

Beschreibung

This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes a rich seam of original archival research (both scientific and musicological), which will be of use to all Hardy scholars, and discusses a range of Hardy's major works in relation to musical metaphors - from early fiction The Poor Man and the Lady to later major works Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, the Mayor of Casterbridge .

Autor

MARK ASQUITH is a teacher of English at Trinity School in London. He is the author of a number of articles on Hardy and Wagner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-52078-7
• 2005 edition
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781349520787
• ISBN-10: 1349520780
• Artikelnr.: 45078474

Rezensionen

'One of the best books on Hardy published in recent years...I was struck by how coherent, well-illustrated and informative it is, opening up a world of musicological debate and making sense of it; relating it to the way that the nineteenth century thought about emotion, embodiment and their transmission; and of course applying it in numerous incisive ways to a range of Hardy's work, taking in issues including the Darwinian landscape, social life, courtship and the chorus...An impressive and elegant book.' - Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, UK