Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination

by Barbara Nathan Hardy and Barbara Hardy

Nature, not art, makes us all story-tellers. Daily and nightly we devise fictions and chronicles, calling some of them daydreams or dreams, some of them nightmares, some of them truths, records, reports and plans. The object of this book is to look at these natural narrative forms and themes, which have been neglected by critics but recognized by narrative artists, using literary criticism in order to argue the limits and limitations of literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147250786X
• ISBN13: 9781472507860
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"