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

Hardy, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0485121530 ISBN 13: 9780485121537

Publisher: The Athlone Press, 2000

Synopsis

This study offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, placing Hardy in the long tradition of writers whose subject is not art but imagination, and discussing themes and forms including narrative, memory, poetry of place and imaginative thresholds.

About this title

Synopsis:

The author of this text offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms for the discovery of everyday and professional acts of imagination. The themes and forms examined here include narrative, conversation, gossip, memory, gender, poetry of place and imaginative threshold. Altogether the study is a contribution to theories of reflexivity, expanding and revising some of the analysis provided by Professor Hardy in "The Appropriate Form" and "Tellers and Listeners".

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Athlone Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0485121530
• ISBN 13: 9780485121537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234