Dickens and Creativity

By: Barbara Hardy

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Hardcover | 24 July 2008 | Edition Number 1

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200 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91

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This monograph covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and imagination and illustrations in his work.Charles Dickens' 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' novels and some of his letters, sketches, essays and stories, Barbara Hardy offers a fascinating demonstration of creativity.

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"[Barbara Hardy] has been consistently interested in artistry and form, the moral and ethical dimensions of fiction, the functions of narrators, and the power of imagination. All these interests combine in her latest book, a series of linked essays about Dickens's creativity...Anyone who reads Dickens for pleasure will find in Barbara Hardy's analyses further reasons to marvel at his fecund and ethical creativity"--Sanford Lakoff

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