Author : Barbara Hardy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441197826
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Book Synopsis Dickens and Creativity by : Barbara Hardy
Download or read book Dickens and Creativity written by Barbara Hardy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue, images of normality, madness, extremity, subversion and disorder, poetry and inter-textuality, anticipating and shaping the languages of modernism, influencing James Joyce and Virginia Woolf as well as traditionalists like H.G. Wells and Evelyn Waugh. Discussing Dickens's novels and some of his letters, sketches, essays and stories, Barbara Hardy offers a fascinating demonstration of creativity.