Thoma Hardy介绍.ppt

  Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代(1840~1928 ) Thomas Hardy is last important novelist and poet of the 19th century. Living at the turn of the century. Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern. His literary genius is apparent in his poems and novels. Current scholars believe Hardy to be one of the greatest tragic novelists of English literature. Thomas Hardy(1840~1928 ) Born and brought up in Dorset, an agricultural district in the south of England, which he called Wessex（韦塞克斯） in his book. Permeated by religion and music, these early years in the rural South West were to have a profound influence on Hardy and the imaginary Wessex of his later novels. Hardy dies at the age of 87 on January 10,1928. His body was buried in Westminster Abbey, whereas his heart was buried in Stinsford Churchyard. Novels He himself grouped his novels into three series: romances and fantasies “传奇和幻想作品”（罗曼史） novels of ingenuity “机巧和实验小说”（爱情阴谋故事） novels of character and environment. “性格和环境小说” “novels of character and environment” is the most outstanding The Return of the Native 《还乡记》 The Mayor of Casterbridge《卡斯特桥市长》 Tess of the D’urbervilles 《苔丝》 Jude the Obscure 《无名的裘德》 Under the Greenwood Tree《绿荫下》 Far From the Madding Crowd《远离尘嚣》 But Tess and Jude were given a hostile reception by the bourgeois public. Wessex  Wessex Works Wessex novels: novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside. Their setting is the agricultural region of the southern counties of England. He truthfully depicts the poverty and decay of small farmers who become hired field hands and roam of the traditional mode of life in rural England. Works: fatalistic mood  This, and his loss of religious faith which was part of the ancient tradition, gave his novels a tragic and fatalistic vision. His pessimistic philosophy seems to show that mankind is subjected to the rule of some hostile a