Tom Foster is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he teaches classes in contemporary fiction, drama and poetry as well as creative writing and composition. He has written several books on twentieth-century British and Irish literature and poetry and lives in East Lansing, Michigan.
发表于2024-11-07
How to Read Novels Like a Professor 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在传统的观念里,读小说就是“看故事”,通过引人入胜的情节,生动逼真的人物,体会作家希望传递的信息。但小说作为文学的一个门类,早已晋升到艺术的高度,而我们作为读者,该如何用艺术的眼光读小说呢?我们可以从美国学者托马斯•福斯特的《如何阅读一本小说》中找到答案...
评分别的我不知道,但是鲁迅一定是中学课本里接受最多人嘲讽的作者,原因不是别的而是那句:我家门前有两棵树,一棵是枣树,另一棵也是枣树。 早在第一次看到这句话的时候,我的内心毫无波澜,甚至有点想笑。鲁迅这作家怎么能写出这样的句子?于是我在当周的周记上写:我有两个水杯...
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Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history.
Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors' choices about structure—point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity—create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.
it might help more if you've read all the novels mentioned in the book
评分一般。
评分一般。
评分其实讲得很浅显生动,当代小说毕竟还是英美传统的,所以读一下这种入门书,会很有启发。只是真到手上的时候觉得翻译有点为难。里面提到了一些比较新的英语小说还没有翻译到中文里。
评分诺贝尔奖一处不赞同。大多谆谆教诲很有advisor感
How to Read Novels Like a Professor 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书