Tellers and Listeners - The Narrative Imagination

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.>

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Hardy, Barbara Nathan Hardy, Barbara Nathan Hardy
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781472507860
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-0786-0
• No. of pages: 279
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form