Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction by Hardy, Barbara

Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780485121537)

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Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction by Hardy, Barbara

Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction

$51.95
Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction by Hardy, Barbara

Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspection+ås, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies and nature poems and in his major characters from Gabriel Oak to Tess and Jude.The themes and forms examined by Barbara Hardy include narrative, conversation, gossip, memory, gender, poetry of place and imaginative thresholds. Altogether the study is a lucid and accessible introduction, which locates Hardy's place in the tradition of English literature.

Author: Barbara Hardy
ISBN-10: 0485121530
ISBN-13: 9780485121537
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2001
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.34h x 6.48w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 193
By Barbara Hardy
By Barbara Hardy
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Barbara Hardy is a poet, autobiographer and novelist, as well as a critic whose books include three on George Eliot and three on Dickens. She is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

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