The Expressive Eye Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy

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.

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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