SOURCE: "Hardy's Jude: The Pursuit of the Ideal as Tragedy," in The Existential Coordinates of the Human Condition: Poetic-Epic-Tragic, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984, pp. 307-18.
In the following essay, Abdoo maintains that Jude the Obscure is a tragic novel in the classical tradition.
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