Thomas Hardy [[electronic resource] ] : imagining imagination : Hardy's poetry and fiction / / Barbara Hardy

• Autore: Hardy Barbara Nathan
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New Brunswick, NJ, : Athlone Press; Somerset, N.J., : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.8
• Soggetto topico: Imagination in literature; Imagination
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 narrative
• Titolo autorizzato: Thomas Hardy
• ISBN: 1-281-29179-X; 9786611291792; 1-84714-397-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450603203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II