The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy - Couverture rigide

Bullen, J. B.

 
9780198128588: The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198128584 ISBN 13 : 9780198128588
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Each of Thomas Hardy's novels is filled with striking visual images ― characters, interior settings, buildings, village scenes, and open tracts of land. These images are all rendered with a vitality and energy immediately recognizable as Hardy's own. In fact, Hardy, whose style owed much to his abilities as a draughtsman, once remarked that he saw his narratives as a series of images. J. B. Bullen explores this fascinating link between the image and the idea in the fiction of Thomas Hardy, and demonstrates how Hardy approached his work from a particular "point of view" which not only determined the lighting, composition, and structure of his literary visual effects, but which also allowed him to express emotions and ideas in the direct, "vividly visible" fashion that is the hallmark of his greatest fiction.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Each of Thomas Hardy's novels is filled with striking visual images -- characters, interior settings, buildings, village scenes, and open tracts of land. These images are all rendered with a vitality and energy immediately recognizable as Hardy's own. In fact, Hardy, whose style owed much to his abilities as a draughtsman, once remarked that he saw his narratives as a series of images. J. B. Bullen explores this fascinating link between the image and the idea in the fiction of Thomas Hardy, and demonstrates how Hardy approached his work from a particular "point of view" which not only determined the lighting, composition, and structure of his literary visual effects, but which also allowed him to express emotions and ideas in the direct, "vividly visible" fashion that is the hallmark of his greatest fiction.

Revue de presse

'The book is thoughtful, deeply researched, and gives new weight to Hardy's assertion that his novels were, like contemporary French paintings, 'impressions'.' Merryn Williams

'Bullen's study has a richness that enlarges our understanding of the art of Thomas Hardy.' Arlene Jackson The Powys Review

'Bullen has command over a wide range of historical, cultural and aesthetic references, and he brings them most intelligently to bear on the fabric of Hardy's fiction. This book is of the first importance in Hardy studies, a pleasure to read and a stimulus to all sorts of further enquiry.' The Review of English Studies

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198128584
ISBN 13 
9780198128588
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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