Short fiction of Thomas Hardy: an exploration and assessment

Hardy's novels and poetry have received extensive criticism, in due proportion to their merit. Hardy's short stories, however, have been virtually excluded from the annals of Hardy criticism, even though Hardy wrote over forty short stories, several of which are truly outstanding. In part, the reason for this neglect is because of the neglected state of the short story in Victorian England. Short fiction, published mainly only in periodicals and never collected in volume form, was obscured to a large extent by the highly popular serial novel. This thesis examines Thomas Hardy's short stories in the context of both the Victorian period and the Victorian short story genre, and explores the ways in which Thomas Hardy improved upon and deviated from some of the common types of short fiction being written in his day.

Art influences on Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Los Angeles's influence on Johnny Truant

"...is a novel that combines literature and art to create a unique postmodern object. It was published just over a decade ago, and in that time numerous scholars and students have written papers and articles on it. Within these articles, the themes are usually about deconstruction, the house as a digital object, the house's lack of homeliness, or characters who claim authorial presence. Danielewski distance himself from that role. The house and its impossible labyrinth are the central feature of the book. A house should provide stability, but this house shifts its rooms and walls at random. A house should protect its occupants, but this one kills people. This house links itself into an infinite amount of information through its use of the internet as an influence and a stylistic device, but it has nothing but an absence in its very foundation, an empty labyrinth with an unseen monster."

Preliminary interpretation of shaking-table response of a full-scale 3-storey building composed of thin reinforced concrete sandwich walls

In the last few decades, the use of cast in situ reinforced concrete sandwich panels for the construction of low- to mid-rise buildings has become more and more widespread due to several interesting properties of this construction technique, such as fast construction and high thermal and acoustic performances. Nonetheless the level of knowledge of the structural behavior of systems made of squat reinforced concrete sandwich panels is still not so consolidated, especially with reference to the seismic response, due to the lack of experimental studies. In recent years, while various experimental tests have been conducted on single panels aimed at assessing their seismic capacity, only few tests have been carried out on more complex structural systems. In this paper, the experimental results of a series of shaking-table tests performed on a full-scale 3-storey building are presented in detail. The main goal is to give to the scientific community the possibility of develop independent interpretation of these experimental results. An in-depth interpretation of the discrepancies between the analytical predictions and the experimental results is beyond the objective of this paper and is still under development. Nonetheless, preliminary interpretations indicate that both the stiffness and the strength of the building under dynamic excitation appear quite superior with respect to those expected from the results of previous pseudo-static cyclic tests conducted on simple specimens.

Annual report of the American Bible Society.

List of the members are included in reports from 1816 to 1874; lists of new members in reports from 1875 to 19 .

Essays in literary interpretation,/

Some aspects of modern literature -- Personality in literary work -- The significance of modern criticism -- The poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Robert Browning -- John Keats : poet and man -- Some modern readings from Dante -- A word about humour.

Proofs of the interpolation of the vowel-letters in the text of the Hebrew Bible and grounds thence derived for a revision of its authorized English version /

Errata slip inserted.

An inquiry into the consequences of neglecting to give the Prayer book with the Bible. Interspersed with remarks on some late speeches at Cambridge, and other important matter relative to the British and Foreign Bible Society.

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A concise dictionary of the Holy Bible : designed for the use of Sunday school teachers and families /

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Exhibition of Bibles in the library of the Bible House in connection with the tercentenary of the Authorised Version

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Life and times of Bishop William Morgan : the translator of the Bible into the Welsh language /

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The history of the origin and first ten years of the British and foreign Bible society.

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Essays in criticism /

The function of criticism at the present time.--The literary influence of academies.--Maurice de Guérin.--Eugénie de Guérin.--Heinrich Heine.--Pagan and mediæval religious sentiment.-- A Persian Passion play.--Joubert.--Spinoza and the Bible.--Marcus Aurelius.

The complete analysis of the Holy Bible:

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The modern theory of the Bible,

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A pocket dictionary of the Holy Bible ... : prepared for the American S.S. Union and adapted to general use /

Mode of access: Internet.