TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rama Kundu, ed.
TI  - Thomas Hardy: a critical spectrum 
SN  - 8126900903
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Atlantic  Publishers
KW  - English literature
KW  - W. B.Yeats
KW  - English poetry
N1  - Includes index
N2  - Thomas Hardy was equally eminent as a novelist and a poet and thus holds a unique place in English Literature.
 More than seven decades after his death, Thomas Hardy is still surprisingly alive if uninterrupted critical attention is a test. 
The nineteen essays included in the volume — thirteen on Hardy’s fiction, five on his poetry, and one on general overview — cover a broad range of critical perspective on Hardy’s fiction and poetry, which include the comparative, the Freudian, the existentialist, the absurdist, the ‘psychospatial,’ the feminist, the aesthetic-artistic, the historicist, the dialectical, the mythical, the symbolic, among others. 
The collection will be relevant and useful to both students and scholars of English literature as it brings into focus a wide spectrum of interesting sidelights on, and illuminating analyses of the various dimensions of Hardy’s works; some of the papers are refreshingly original and perceptive in their approach to and treatment of the respective subjects.
 As a ‘great’ writer Hardy has remained problematic, demanding that his readers wrestle with him. The present volume claims to have joined that unbroken wrestle — more than a century-old — with the words and meanings of Hardy’s works. 
Contributions from the eminent scholars in the field have enhanced the value of the collection
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