LEADER 02773nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910450603203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-29179-X 010 $a9786611291792 010 $a1-84714-397-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000404445 035 $a(EBL)436538 035 $a(OCoLC)290576222 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258931 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194482 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258931 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274306 035 $a(PQKB)11290342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436538 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224966 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129179 035 $a(OCoLC)893334249 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000404445 100 $a19991018d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThomas Hardy$b[electronic resource] $eimagining imagination : Hardy's poetry and fiction /$fBarbara Hardy 210 $aLondon ;$aNew Brunswick, NJ $cAthlone Press ;$aSomerset, N.J. $cDistributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-485-11543-3 311 $a0-485-12153-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aThe 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 introspectionĘs, 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 606 $aImagination in literature 606 $aImagination 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImagination in literature. 615 0$aImagination. 676 $a823/.8 700 $aHardy$b Barbara Nathan$0165572 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450603203321 996 $aThomas Hardy$91270675 997 $aUNINA