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  title info:
    title: Hardy's rhetoric and reader response in Far from the madding crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  name:
    name part: Egle, Esther Beatrice Mendez.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bowers, David R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Burt, Forrest D.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1981
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: v, 208 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: This is a study of how insights into the process of reading can enhance our understanding of two novels by Thomas Hardy--Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The process of reading may be seen as a communications transaction which involves the reader, the text, and the author. From reader response criticism, we learn that both the reader and the text have dynamic roles in the process of reading a literary text. However, in attributing to the text an active role, reader response critics allow the writer to drop out of the literary transaction. A more likely explanation is that the ultimate director of response is the author, not the text. The author's control of reader response suggests that there is a rhetorical dimension to literature. Rhetoric involves conscious manipulation of language to achieve desired effects. Reader response criticism studies those effects from the reader's point of view, and rhetorical criticism enables us to study them from the author's point of view. Our response to a novel--Hardy's novels, for example--includes response to narrative and artistic devices and recognition of the author's rhetorical use of language and of fictional techniques. Thus, in Far from the Madding Crowd, humor--a standard narrative and fictional technique--also functions as a means of shaping our response to the narrator and to Gabriel Oak. In Tess, the narrator is much more than a fictional device for telling a story. He is a complex personality whose characteristics function rhetorically to control our response to Tess and to the other characters and to shape our understanding of the novel. ...
  note: "Major subject: English."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1981
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-207).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hardy, Thomas
      name part: 1840-1928
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hardy, Thomas
      name part: 1840-1928
  subject:
    topic: Reader-response criticism
  subject:
    topic: Reading, Psychology of
  subject:
    topic: Rhetorical criticism
  subject:
    topic: Major English
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-95366
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 821009
    record change date: 20220104090730.0
    record identifier: in00000088456
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng