A Study of the Modes of Imagination.

Author / Editor
Marsh, Henry Edward.

Title
A Study of the Modes of Imagination.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Glasgow, 1999. Fully accessible via https://theses.gla.ac.uk/944/ (accessed April 6, 2023).

Physical Description
286 pp.; illus

Description
Contemplates "fantasy, identification, and the imagination itself" as response modes in the process of reading, exploring their "distinctive epistemological implications and significance for identity." Includes comments on works by Chaucer (especially FranT) and Franz Kafka to exemplify how irony can deflect or disrupt "the natural impulse to identify ourselves with a narrator" and "blind us to his or her unreliability."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Franklin and His Tale
Style and Versification