H05075 INNOVATIVE HARDY CRITICISM- 9/16/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
From: jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
Subject: Innovative
Date: September 16, 2005 6:50:40 AM PDT
I should be interested to know which works on Hardy, within the last two or
three years, do the members of the forum consider the most innovative in the
field of Hardy research?
Jacky Wilkinson
jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 16, 2005 7:04:06 AM PDT
Jacky --I think the Well-Beloved will be up there. Not only did Hardy's contemporaries think so-- to wit, Proust -- but also it has been translated into Chinese and Korean recently so Victorians are not alone.
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 18, 2005 1:11:03 PM PDT
Just to clarify----. I think Jackie is asking about works *on* TH,
not *by* him. Right, Jackie?
Bob
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of English
State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063
USA
Telephone: (716) 673-1905
FAX: (716) 673-3446
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 18, 2005 3:34:02 PM PDT
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Jacky, I don't know if you have had a chance yet to look through TTHA's
Book Reviews Page, but I thought some of the reviews of more recent books
might be productive.
Good luck probing,
Betty
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From: jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 19, 2005 1:25:06 AM PDT
Yes, Bob, that's right.
Thanks
Jacky
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From: jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 19, 2005 1:27:11 AM PDT
Yes, Betty, I have used this most useful resource, but I was just interested
to know the opinions of any other members of the forum.
Thanks,
Jacky
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 19, 2005 5:24:42 AM PDT
Ah -- in that case I'd plump for John Hughes's Ecstatic Sound: Music and Individuality in the Work of Thomas Hardy (Ashgate, 2001). It's the first full-length work on the subject of Hardy and music.
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: Innovative
Date: September 19, 2005 10:44:25 AM PDT
On the question,
I should be interested to know which works on Hardy, within the last two or three years, do the members of the forum consider the most innovative in the
field of Hardy research? I have two suggestions. First,
Rosemarie Morgan, editor. The Hardy Review, Volume 7. New Haven, CT:
The Hardy Association Press, 2004. (And, of course, earlier volumes)
What strikes me as highly innovative about the Review is its remarkable combination of the immediacy of Internet discussion with more traditional scholarship. It is, I think, a unique, or, at least, certainly, a very rare blending of two very different contemporary modes of scholarship.
The second,
Arthur Efron. Experiencing Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Deweyan Account. Value Inquiry Book Series 162. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005.
I've given this book a very mixed review in a forthcoming issue of English Literature in Transition. But its attempt to record one scholar's personal engagement with Tess of the d'Urbervilles over a lifetime of study, with remarkable openness and candor, is, it seems to me, far more "innovative"
than nearly all the other scholarship in the past two years I've read.
Those, of course are book-length studies. Of article-length works, I'd suggest
Sarah Conly. "Seduction, Rape, and Coercion" Ethics 105.1 (October, 2004), 96-121.
for its analytic account of the kinds of issues Hardy's Tess raises. And, a couple of studies,
Hayden, Rebecca. "Teaching Works We Love: Hazards of the English Classroom." English Journal
94.4 (March 2005), 41-4.
[A high school English teacher reflects on her experience of teaching Tess of the d'Urbervilles]
and
Emma Woodhouse. "Tess and the Contemporary Teenage Girl" The Hardy Society Journal 1.2 (June 2005), 61-64.
[Discussion of teaching the novel by the Head of English at Queen's College London.],
both of which grapple with the problems of teaching Tess to young people.
Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of English
State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063
USA
Telephone: (716) 673-1905
FAX: (716) 673-3446
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 19, 2005 7:29:57 PM PDT
Aw shucks!! (as Bill Morgan would say) -- this really took me by surprise.
On reflection, what really interested me about starting up The Hardy Review was the new and innovative democratic potential of it. Everyone has a voice! To be sure I have to select and edit, scrupulously, Forum/POTM items in order to produce debates that meet certain scholarly standards but in the end most contributors to a chosen thread end up as important participants in what we might call, in the very best sense, postmodern Socratic dialogues.
(I hope you are all -- you published "all "-- now in the throes of saying "Aw Shucks!")
While I am here though I'd like to remind our Forum members that TTHA's Editorial Board is just about to embark on selecting papers for publication in the Essay section of the 2005 Hardy Review. Please let me know soonest if you wish to submit an essay // also see TTHA's Guidelines for
Submission at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/contribu.htm
And thank you Bob for your generous vote of confidence --
Much appreciated!
Rosemarie
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From: jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 20, 2005 7:38:58 AM PDT
Thanks, Bob, I really appreciate your views. Doing my MA research on Far From the Madding Crowd I have found Rosemary Morgan's Cancelled Words an invaluable resource, and Michael Millgate's Thomas Hardy's Public Voice: The Essays, Speeches and Miscellaneous Prose was a great 'time saver' when referring to Hardy's views on fiction etc.
Being a relative newcomer to The Thomas Hardy Association, I did not realise that the Review was still in its infancy, and, indeed, a most precocious infant, if I may say so. I have found it most useful on several occasions, and particularly Charles Pettit's article on 'The Unique Achievement of Far From the Madding Crowd'. In fact, I don't know what I should do now without TTHA.
Thanks,
Jacky Wilkinson
jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
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From: jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
Subject: A huge thanks
Date: September 20, 2005 7:49:41 AM PDT
Now that my dissertation has winged its way to the markers, I should like to
take this opportunity of thanking the members of the forum for all their
help - and patience- during these past few months. I should particularly
like to thank Rosemary and Bob for their invaluable academic prompting and
direction. More than this, however, I am so pleased to have discovered a
group of widely varied kindred spirits, and, I hope, friends. Rosemary once
pointed out to me that research is a very lonely occupation, and I truly
thank the forum for making my research less lonely. Perhaps much more than
all this, the forum has introduced me to new ideas and new pastures which I
can't wait to explore.
I now have a few months off whilst awaiting an interview to do my PhD with
the OU - a veritable oasis for disabled students - and I shall occupy this
time with widening and deepening my reading of and on Hardy, hopefully with
the helping hands my new-found 'friends'.
Once again, a HUGE thank you to all.
Jacky Wilkinson
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: A huge thanks
Date: September 20, 2005 8:34:56 AM PDT
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Jacky -- it's students like you who make the whole thing worthwhile!
Good Luck in your interview (hard to beat the OU for academic excellence!)
Batedly,
Rosemarie
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From: rnemesva@stfx.ca
Subject: RE: Innovative
Date: September 20, 2005 9:17:40 AM PDT
I'm sorry to come in on this thread so late, after Jacky has given her thanks, but our university server has been crashing and rising, crashing and rising for the last couple of days, and is only fairly reliable now. This also explains why I owe several other people emails, but that's not relevant here.
Anyway, I would suggest Pamela Dalziel's work on the illustrations that accompany Hardy's texts is interesting and innovative. The two articles I would suggest are "'She matched his violence with her own wild passion': Illustrating Far from the Madding Crowd" and "Whatever Happened to Elizabeth Jane?: Revisioning Gender in The Mayor of Casterbridge."
Hope that provides some (tardy) help.
Richard Nemesvari
Department of English
St. Francis Xavier University
rnemesva@stfx.ca
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From: jacky@wilkibob.me.uk
Subject: Re: Innovative
Date: September 20, 2005 11:51:32 AM PDT
Thank you, Richard, it is helpful. I hope your computer is now behaving itself.
All the best
Jacky
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