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BIRGIT'S HOMEPAGE

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Address: http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~bp10/
Contact: Birgit Plietzsch (bp10@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Date: 07/01/04

Birgit Plietzsch directs the TTHA "Novels" page. She is currently Arts Computing Advisor at St. Andrews University.

The site is divided into three main parts--"Arts and Humanities Computing," "Thomas Hardy," and "Personal." The "Thomas Hardy" part is divided into the following sections:

1. In English:
   (a) "Thomas Hardy's Wessex"--&qot;Suggestion for the construction of a simple research web site (using html, serverside includes, and java script."
   (b) The text of an essay published in The Thomas Hardy Journal titled "'A Young German Lady' and the 'Experienced Reviewer of that Country."
   (c) "Wessex"--A brief essay on the evolution of "Wessex" in Hardy's writings, icluding linkes to pages on Hardy's concept of "Wessex" and Hardy's map of Wessex with hyperlinks on it to Hardy texts describing various place names;
   (d) Texts of five Hardy poems: "Domicilium," "Leipzig," "We Field-Women," "Wessex Heights," and "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back."
2. "In German" consists of four parts:
   (a) A timeline of Hardy's life.
   (b) A list of translations of Hardy's works into German.
   (c) A bibliography of German dissertations on Hardy from 1919 to 1983.
   (d) A bibliography of Hardy's critical reception in Germany from 1889 to 1928.
3. "Links" consists of a link to the Thomas Hardy Asssociation's Novels Page.

COMMENT:

This first German web site devoted to Hardy limits itself to providing information not already available on the Internet. An authoritative print source is in every case provided for the poetic e-texts. The hyperlinked Hardy map of Wessex is a revealing (though at present incomplete) way of relating Hardy's fictional sites to descriptive texts from his writings. The biographical timeline and list of translations are both helpful services for German Internet users; the list of translations is particularly valuable because it identifies some so scarce they are available in only one or two libraries in Germany. The bibliography of German doctoral dissertations usefully brings together information otherwise difficult to find, as does the bibliography of Hardy's critical reception in Germany.

SUMMARY:

A highly reliable source of information about Hardy, much of which is not available, or not available in the form provided, either in print or on the Internet.

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