Hardy's People

Der Verfasser schreibt in seinem Vorwort zu dieser in englischer Sprache abgefaßten Untersuchung über die Figurenwelt Thomas Hardys: "It is my hope that the following study, which examines several structural fundamentals of Hardy's fictions, will provide a dram of differing insight into the work of this increasingly significant author, as well as a measure of additional respect for the strangely captivating, often grotesque, sometimes baffling, and always meaningful creations of Hardy's imagination in the major fiction." Aus dem Inhalt: Multiple Structures ("Far from the Madding Crowd;" "The Woodlanders" ). - Binary Structures ("The Return of the Native;" "Jude the Obscure" ). -Unitary Structures ("The Mayor of Casterbridge;" "Tess"). - Summing up.