Dickens and creativity / Barbara Hardy.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2008. Description: xvi, 181 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780826495266 (hbk.); 0826495265 (hbk.); 9781847064592 (pbk.); 1847064590 (pbk.)Subject(s): Imagination in literature | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)DDC classification: 823.8 LOC classification: PR4588 | .H283 2008Online resources: Table of contents only | WorldCat details | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-177) and index.
TOC A career and its context -- Dickens discusses creativity -- The awareness of art in Sketches by Boz, Pickwick papers, Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas carol and The chimes -- The artist as narrator in Doctor Marigold, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great expectations -- Talkative men and women in Pickwick papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit -- Imaginative extremes, negations and norms -- Subversions and oppositions -- Crises of imagination in Oliver Twist, A Christmas carol, Domeby and son, Bleak house, Hard times and The lazy tour of two idle apprentices -- Forecast and fantasy in Little Dorrit -- Creative conversation in Hard times, Great expectations and Our mutual friend -- Assertions of style : rhythm and repetition in A tale of two cities and Our mutual friend -- Shakespeare in Dickens : David Copperfield and Great expectations -- Dickens in the twentieth century.
Summary:
Charles Dickens' experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. This book covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and imagination and illustrations in his work.
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Tahur Ahmed
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