02773nam 2200601Ia 450 991045060320332120200520144314.01-281-29179-X97866112917921-84714-397-0(CKB)1000000000404445(EBL)436538(OCoLC)290576222(SSID)ssj0000258931(PQKBManifestationID)11194482(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258931(PQKBWorkID)10274306(PQKB)11290342(MiAaPQ)EBC436538(Au-PeEL)EBL436538(CaPaEBR)ebr10224966(CaONFJC)MIL129179(OCoLC)893334249(EXLCZ)99100000000040444519991018d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThomas Hardy[electronic resource] imagining imagination : Hardy's poetry and fiction /Barbara HardyLondon ;New Brunswick, NJ Athlone Press ;Somerset, N.J. Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers20001 online resource (235 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-485-11543-3 0-485-12153-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; References; Introduction; 1. Portraits of the Artist in the Novels; 2. Centres of Creativity in the Novels; 3. Good Times injude the Obscure: Constructing Fictions; 4. Portraits of the Artist in the Poems; 5. Arts of Conversation; 6. The Poetry of Place; 7. Sexual Imagination: the Monologues; 8. Thresholds and Limits; Notes; Select Booklist; IndexThe 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 introspectionÆs, 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 narrativeImagination in literatureImaginationElectronic books.Imagination in literature.Imagination.823/.8Hardy Barbara Nathan165572MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450603203321Thomas Hardy1270675UNINA