Barbara Hardy

Tellers and Listeners (eBook, PDF)

The Narrative Imagination

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nature, not art, makes us all story-tellers. Daily and nightly we devise fictions and chronicles, calling some of them daydreams or dreams, some of them nightmares, some of them truths, records, reports and plans. The object of this book is to look at these natural narrative forms and themes, which have been neglected by critics but recognized by narrative artists, using literary criticism in order to argue the limits and limitations of literature. Although Hardy's suggestions about narrative apply broadly to all artistic forms, in the second part of the book she approaches the subject through a detailed analysis of three authors, Dickens, Hardy and Joyce, all profound and far-reaching analysts of narrative structures and values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 279
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472513908
• Artikelnr.: 40145880

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Forms and Themes
1. Narrative Imagination
2. Fantasy and Dream
3. Memory and Memories
4. Abuses of Narrative
5. Good Stories, Good Listeners
Part Two: Authors
6. Charles Dickens
7. Thomas Hardy
8. James Joyce
Index