Tellers And Listeners: The Narrative Imagination
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
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A landmark work of literary criticism, Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination argues that storytelling is not merely an artistic form but a fundamental human activity woven into the fabric of everyday thought and feeling. Barbara Hardy presents a compelling case that narrative is the primary mode through which people organize experience, memory, and anticipation, drawing on a rich range of literary examples from novelists such as George Eliot, Henry James, and Charles Dickens. With scholarly precision and an elegant, accessible tone, the work illustrates how the act of telling and the act of listening are deeply reciprocal, shaping both the teller's self-understanding and the listener's imaginative engagement. Hardy details the ways in which inner speech, dream, and memory all operate as forms of narrative, blurring the boundary between lived experience and literary art. This influential study remains essential reading for students of narrative theory, literary criticism, and the broader humanities.
Author: Barbara Hardy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, University of London: The Athlone Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of literary criticism, Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination argues that storytelling is not merely an artistic form but a fundamental human activity woven into the fabric of everyday thought and feeling. Barbara Hardy presents a compelling case that narrative is the primary mode through which people organize experience, memory, and anticipation, drawing on a rich range of literary examples from novelists such as George Eliot, Henry James, and Charles Dickens. With scholarly precision and an elegant, accessible tone, the work illustrates how the act of telling and the act of listening are deeply reciprocal, shaping both the teller's self-understanding and the listener's imaginative engagement. Hardy details the ways in which inner speech, dream, and memory all operate as forms of narrative, blurring the boundary between lived experience and literary art. This influential study remains essential reading for students of narrative theory, literary criticism, and the broader humanities.