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Thomas Hardy’s career as an architect profoundly shaped his literary imagination. This pioneering study explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of his engagement with architecture, from the symbolic weight of ruins to memory and desire in built form.
Thomas Hardy’s dual career as both architect and novelist is well known, yet the profound ways in which architecture shapes his literary imagination remain underexplored. This book offers a pioneering study of the ethical, political and aesthetic implications of Hardy’s engagement with architecture, both within and beyond his literary works. From the analogy between architecture and personhood, through the symbolic weight of ruins and architectural restoration, to the reification of memory and desire in built form, Hardy’s fiction emerges as a literary edifice shaped not only by the ethos, political tensions, and aesthetics of nineteenth-century architecture, but also by a vivid and enduring architectural imagination.This book opens new pathways for understanding his work, and, more broadly, the relationship between the built environment and literary imagination. It will appeal to scholars and students of English literature, architecture, and Victorian studies, as well as general readers fascinated by the intersections of art, space, and storytelling.
This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life. This title presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora.
This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.
Discover the surprising dialogue between East and West. This uplifting book reveals a history of mutual influence, from the common ground of Confucius and Socrates to China’s unexpected impact on Western thinkers like Nietzsche and T.S. Eliot.
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
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