THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
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BIBLE-MAKING IN THE WORKS OF HARDY
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Address: http://www.creighton.edu/~paharty/themain.htm
Contact: Contact: Patrick A. Harty (paharty@creighton.edu)
Date: 07/01/04
A documented undergraduate honors thesis by Patrick A. Harty titled, "Representing the Meaningful in the Western Christian Literary Tradition: The Role of Bible-Making in the Works of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Thomas Hardy." The paper was written at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1996; Mr. Harty is now a student a Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
COMMENT:
A simplistic student paper arguing that Hardy is "a disillusioned romantic who wants desperately for the world to be as the Romantics would have it but the 'rook-farmer' dichotomy eats at his soul" and that Hardy "makes his mission to demonstrate the evil nature of the world and mankind, and to show the meaninglessness of one's struggle here on earth . . . ."