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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Expressive Eye
• Subtitle: Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy
• Author: J. B. Bullen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 294
• EAN: 9780198128588
• ISBN: 0198128584
• ID: 04521792
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 554 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 148 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. April 1986

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