Pattern and Design in the Structure of the Novel: A Study of Tess of the d’Urbervilles

1983 ◽  
pp. 108-131
Author(s):  
Ian Milligan
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles

scholarly journals A STUDY OF RELENTLESS SEARCH OF UTOPIA IN THOMAS HARDY’S TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES USING JACQUES DERRIDA’S THEORY OF DECONSTRUCTION.

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Milind Solanki
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Darwinian Theory ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles

This paper aims to read Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urberviless in the light of Jacques Derrida’s Theory of Deconstruction, Darwinian Theory of Evolution in his book on the Origin of Species and each character’s search of Utopia in the entire novel. All the major characters have been taken in the novel as well as some of the minor characters also to study the novel in a better in a detailed manner.

scholarly journals An Examination of Berman’s Negative Deformation Tendencies on Persian Translation of Tess of the d’Urbervilles Novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Fahimeh Vamenani ◽  
Moslem Sadeghi
Keyword(s):  
Document Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Persian Language ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Persian Translation

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the frequency of deforming tendencies on Persian translation of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles based on Berman’s model. Moreover, the study set out to find out how words have been changed from the source language to fit the target language by adopting deforming tendencies. To achieve the aims of study, the researchers relied on content or document analysis as a qualitative type of study to analyze the strategies which were used in the translation of Tess of the d’Urbervilles novel from English to Persian. The data came from a sample of 300 sentences which were randomly selected from the novel translated into the Persian language by Mina Sarabi.The trustworthiness of the research findings was met through inter-rater agreement and it was reported 0.94. The results indicated that Persian translation of the work suffered from lexical mismatches, destruction of rhythm and destruction of vernacular networks, although destruction of rhythms and destruction of vernacular networks were among the most frequently used deformation tendencies. The findings also revealed that the translation has in one way or another maintained the genre and social stance of the author. Overall, it appears that Berman offers a model which is too severe on keeping the form and syntax of the source text in the Persian translation of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

scholarly journals From mommet to ugly: An analysis of the linguistic duality and idiolect of Tess Durbeyfield in the Spanish translations of Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Hikma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-202
Author(s):  
Julia López-Narváez
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles

The current study aims at critically exploring the resulting identity of Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ main character, Tess Durbeyfield, in the Spanish translations through the analysis of her linguistic variation. Throughout the novel, Tess is characterised by a unique duality in linguistic variation, which shapes her identity. She is capable of using both dialectal and non-dialectal marks, which differentiates her from the rest of the novel’s characters. To reach thus the goal of this research, that is, to verify whether Tess Durbeyfield’s multifaceted identity is maintained in the Spanish translations, it is essential to analyse the linguistic variation of the novel’s heroine in the target texts. For the project, the three Spanish translations that exist of the novel have been analysed (carried out in 1924, 1994 and 2017). In order to reach this aforementioned objective, the strategies carried out by the different translators regarding linguistic variation will be analysed, focusing on the possible identity distortion that these decisions may entail in the heroine’s characterization. In order to observe Tess Durbeyfield’s idiolect and linguistic variation, all dialogues from the novel and its corresponding translations have been analysed and classified. In the project, through selected dialogues, it will be observed whether the translation strategies regarding the heroine’s linguistic variation imply a reconfiguration of Tess’s identity in the target texts

‘From their point of view’: voice and speech in George Moore’s Esther Waters

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Speech Presentation ◽  
Voice And Speech

George Moore’s Esther Waters 1983 [1894] has been praised by critics for the sustained manner in which Esther serves as the controlling consciousness of her own story. This article explores the possibility of using stylistic accounts of some of the distinctive linguistic features of the text to offer an explanation of this. As an illiterate servant girl as well as an unrepentant ‘fallen woman’, Esther is an unlikely and, at the time of first publication, controversial heroine, let alone central consciousness. The narrative of the novel is considered in terms of Uspensky’s (1973) notion of ‘point of view’, and various later developments of this, in order to assess how Esther acts as ‘characterfocalizer’ for her own story. The manner in which Esther gives ‘voice’ to that story is examined with reference to Leech and Short’s (1981) ‘cline of speech presentation’. Further, it is argued that Esther’s ‘voice’ is not only heard when her speech is represented, but permeates the narration of her story. Bakhtin’s (1981) notion of ‘voice-images’ is used to explore this idea. Throughout the discussion of these themes, comparisons are drawn with Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a novel very close to Esther Waters in date and theme, but in which some significantly different linguistic choices are made. It is argued that these differences can, in part, account for the different viewpoints, or ideological stances, of the two texts.1

Arthur Schopenhauer, Evolution, and Ecology in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Heaney
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Standard Assumption ◽  
Ecological Vision ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
Plant Life

John Heaney, “Arthur Schopenhauer, Evolution, and Ecology in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders” (pp. 516–545) This essay takes issue with two truisms within Thomas Hardy criticism: first, the widely accepted view that The Woodlanders (1887) is Hardy’s most “Darwinian” work; and second, the standard assumption that Arthur Schopenhauer’s influence on Hardy’s writing can be discerned specifically in the works from Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) onward, and primarily in the unrelenting pessimism that characterizes both writers’ worldviews. The essay calls into question the simplification underlying both positions by suggesting ways in which Schopenhauer’s metaphysics may have influenced Hardy’s treatment of evolutionary themes in The Woodlanders, paying particular attention to Hardy’s choice of plant life as the dominant metaphor within the novel, and the numerous ways in which the evolutionary model it depicts diverges from that formulated by thinkers such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. It argues furthermore that Schopenhauer’s philosophy of nature therefore offers the optimum framework through which to interpret Hardy’s unique ecological vision in the novel, and calls for renewed attention to the philosopher’s proto-phenomenological description of reality, the significance of which has been largely overlooked by recent ecocritical scholars searching for a non-Cartesian framework in which to couch their readings.

scholarly journals URBAN DEPRAVITY, RURAL UNSOPHISTICATION: HEREDITARY TAINT IN HARDY'S TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-307
Author(s):  
Rosanna Nunan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Spiritual Belief ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
The Social ◽  
In The Beginning

Critics have used various approaches to explain the paradoxes or inconsistencies evident in the characterization of Angel Clare in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891); however, by examining the social purity movement and its response to increasingly popular theories of degeneration at the fin de siècle, we can understand the interplay of contradictory ideas at work in Angel. The tension between the supposedly modern, secular viewpoints that Angel exhibits in the beginning of the narrative and his unexpected return to a conservative and misogynistic ideology upon Tess's confession of her “fall” puzzles readers, fellow characters, and perhaps even the narrator of the novel itself, who accounts for the alteration as simply the hypocrisy of a man who “was yet the slave to custom and conventionality when surprised back into his early teachings” (Hardy 265; vol. 2, ch. 39). Oliver Lovesey suggests that the reason why “Clare somewhat bombastically renounces his father's Christianity, but . . . still stumbles on elements of traditional social morality” and why he “bypasses the resurrection, but cannot negotiate around Tess's ‘unintact state’” is that Tess's “virginity replaces the resurrection in his religion of unbelief” (913–14). Lovesey argues that Angel displaces religious faith in Christ's resurrection onto a material substitute, Tess's virginity, and that the revelation of her lack of virginity then catapults him into a despair akin to the despair of annihilated spiritual belief, “the void of an unbeliever's hell” (924). While I am also concerned with Angel's fetishization of virginity, I believe that it is significant that his obsession with purity extends beyond Tess's virginity to encompass rural space as a whole, a space in which Tess's virginity constitutes but one part. The very capaciousness of Angel's devotion to purity situates him squarely within the environmental binaries characteristic of later theories of urban degeneration.

TESS, VICTIM OF HYPOCRICY TESS OF THE d’URBERVILLES, THOMAS HARDY

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2379-2382
Author(s):  
Suzana Ibraimi Memeti
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Alfred The Great ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Deep Sympathy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Prejudice

Thomas Hardy is distinguished by his contemporaries for the fact that the subjects of his novels are taken from the rural environment in the agricultural region south of England. He calls his homeland Dorset, Wessex, in memory of former King Alfred the Great. Themes and subjects of his novels are attractive and dominant. In all of his most popular novels, Hardy describes, outlines, and portrays human beings who are faced with powerful attacks of devastating and mysterious forces. He was a serious novelist who sought to present the view of life throughout a novel. Frequently, his themes and subjects mix with the sequence of events that have extreme and fatal consequences, while he rarely fails to inspire the reader with his deep mercy to the characters who suffer in their live; he often cannot afford to reach the highest degree of tragic element. The author sends an indictment to his time: he firmly rejects the duality of morality according to which the behavior of a man and the behavior of a woman is differently estimated. Thomas Hardy’s world as a writer is completely realistic, even transparent because he is a rare master of description of the environment. His characters are creatures of their environment, presented in their mutual relationships, often with sharp psychological observations. “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” is based on a familiar motif, that of a fallen woman, where Tess represents the prejudices of the Victorian society. In the novel, Hardy portrays an innocent poor girl of a country, a victim of the combined forces of Victorian patriarchal society, of the hypocrisy of social prejudice and gender inequality, which shows his deep sympathy for Tessa, the protagonist of the novel, a symbol of women devastated without mercy in a world dominated by males. He shows that Tess is an example of the devastating effect of society's pressures on a pure girl, and that Angel and Alec are personifications of destructive attitudes towards women.

Thomas Hardy's Groundwork

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. 1028-1041
Author(s):  
Daniel Wright
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Total Darkness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Fictional Worlds

Thomas Hardy strategically exposes what he calls the “groundwork” of his fictional worlds in scenes depicting blizzards or total darkness that scrub away all points of orientation. When Hardy reveals the empty field—”forms without features”—within which the details of the novel take shape, he aims to investigate the ontological, rather than epistemological or aesthetic, questions raised by novelistic realism. By tracing Hardy's groundwork through several novels, primarily Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Return of the Native (1878), and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), the essay shows that Hardy's vexed relation to the realist tradition arises out of the metaphysical paradoxes endemic to novelistic mimesis.

An Ecofeminist Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles and its Movie Adaptation by Roman Polanski: A Comparative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Djouher Benyoucef
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Roman Polanski

Ecofeminist examination of audio-visual and textual narratives is the central concern of this article. At the core of my study is a comparative analysis of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and its movie adaptation by Roman Polanski (1979), with an aim to explore convergent and divergent ecofeminist imperatives. I argue that the novel highlights the intersection between the oppression of women and exploitation of nature. By contrast, the movie adopts an ambiguous stance that undermines the potential of an ethical ecofeminist critique. This is clearly reflected through scenes that represent the encounter between Alec and Tess as a pastoral romance taking place against the backdrop of nature, that ultimately serve to cast their association as the result of natural instinct rather than a crime. This reworking of the novel seems to suggest that the movie’s thrust as a whole is towards exonerating Alec, which undermines the novels’ ecofeminist overtones.

scholarly journals Anal Phase Analysis of Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of The D’urbervilles”

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Safnidar Siahaan
Keyword(s):  
Phase Analysis ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Literary Character

The research offers about the development phase analysis in Hardy’s novel “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”. This novel describes Tess as the victim of men who fall in love with her. Tess is one of Hardy's most sympathetic protagonists. She is as likeable as a literary character found in all of English literature. Throughout the novel, Hardy develops Tess as a character and describes her simple beauty. She is attractive to all men, and even her attempts to change her appearance are not enough to hide her natural beauty. Further in the story of the novel, Tess is depicted as a person of near divine qualities when she baptizes Sorrow before he dies. Hardy calls the effect on her siblings as a transfiguring effect" and that she looked with a touch of dignity which was almost regal. Tess' beauty is balanced by her earthy elegance, and this is especially evident when she is being courted by Angel at Talbothays. To know all of the protagonist’s characterization in this novel, the writer will analyze it based on the psychoanalysis theory focussing on the anal phase.  The result is expected to give the reader a better description and understanding of the Tess’ development phases.Keywords: anal phase, commencement, retentive, expulsion

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