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.
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.
發表於2025-01-22
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我們好像早已掌握瞭這樣的辨析,即“旅遊”和“旅行”,其實是兩個完全不同的概念。一個旅遊的人,隻是在一個陌生的地方購購物、拍拍照、發發朋友圈,“走馬觀花”地完成自己的“旅遊”。而一個旅行者,則是需要在旅途中真切地體驗某種東西。他需要更多地投入,纔能享受真正純...
評分地球上最後一個人獨自坐在房間裏,這時,忽然響起瞭敲門聲…… 這是截至目前世界上最短的科幻小說。一句話,25個字,卻引發瞭讀者的無限遐想:地球上為什麼隻剩下一個人?其他人去哪瞭?是去往瞭彆的星球還是死瞭?如果是死瞭,究竟是怎麼死的?敲門的是誰?這最後一個人會去開...
評分讀小說究竟能讀齣什麼?《如何閱讀一本小說》迴答瞭這個問題。經驗尚淺的讀者隻注意錶麵的情節,容易忽視埋藏其下的眾多控製要素。敘事角度、句法風格、詞匯選擇等技術手段,纔是小說如此精彩的最重要原因。這本書引導讀者有意識地分析它們,從而將小說開掘得更深。 本...
評分在傳統的觀念裏,讀小說就是“看故事”,通過引人入勝的情節,生動逼真的人物,體會作傢希望傳遞的信息。但小說作為文學的一個門類,早已晉升到藝術的高度,而我們作為讀者,該如何用藝術的眼光讀小說呢?我們可以從美國學者托馬斯•福斯特的《如何閱讀一本小說》中找到答案...
評分我們好像早已掌握瞭這樣的辨析,即“旅遊”和“旅行”,其實是兩個完全不同的概念。一個旅遊的人,隻是在一個陌生的地方購購物、拍拍照、發發朋友圈,“走馬觀花”地完成自己的“旅遊”。而一個旅行者,則是需要在旅途中真切地體驗某種東西。他需要更多地投入,纔能享受真正純...
圖書標籤: 文學 英文原版 外國文學 英文版 實用 文學理論 關於書的書 Non-Fiction
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評分一般。
評分筆調很可愛,讀書時會笑起來的文學理論入門。有的例子沒讀過,有部分甚至完全沒聽說過【捂臉。雖然標題說like a prof. 但事實上也常聚焦於閱讀體驗,很多處get梗的開心,讓我想把常書中提到我卻沒讀過的幾本補起來。 作者是John Fowles的真愛,提到偵探小說時混閤著嘲諷和自豪【?的語調也超可愛
評分泛泛讀瞭一半左右
評分it might help more if you've read all the novels mentioned in the book
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