The English Romance in Time

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Helen Cooper

页数:560

出版时间:2008-04-15

价格:USD 49.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780199532582

具体描述

The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change.The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true. The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.

用户评价

从纯粹的文学角度审视，这本书的语言风格是其最大的亮点之一。它兼具了古典的优雅和现代的流畅，读起来毫不费力，却又不失文字本身的韵味。尤其是在描写场景和心境转换时，作者大量运用了富有象征意义的意象，比如反复出现的暴风雨和宁静的玫瑰园，这些都不是随意的点缀，而是深刻暗示着人物内心世界的波动和关系的发展方向。我常常需要放慢语速，反复咀嚼那些精妙的比喻和排比，体会其中蕴含的深层含义。这本书读完后，那种文字的余韵久久不散，让人忍不住想回去重新品味那些华丽而又精准的段落。

我必须承认，这本书的篇幅相当可观，初读时我还有些担心自己能否坚持读完，毕竟现代人的阅读耐心大多有限。但是，一旦被作者的叙事节奏所捕获，时间仿佛就失去了意义。它有一种魔力，让你在阅读过程中，不断地对角色的未来产生强烈的代入感和好奇心。最让我感到惊喜的是，作者在处理高潮部分时，并没有选择那种戏剧化的、撕心裂肺的冲突，而是通过一种更为内敛、更符合英国人含蓄情感表达的方式来揭示真相，这种克制的美学处理，反而更具震撼人心的力量。每一个情感爆发点都积累得恰到好处，让人在沉寂中等待，最终得到一个充满回味的释放。

坦白说，我原本以为这会是一部老生常谈的、充满陈词滥调的言情小说，毕竟“英伦浪漫”这个标签听起来未免有些俗套。然而，这本书的叙事结构和情节推进完全出乎我的意料。它巧妙地将宏大的历史背景与微观的个人命运编织在一起，使得爱情故事不再是脱离现实的空中楼阁。例如，书中对工业革命初期社会阶层固化的描写，以及女性在父权社会中挣扎求存的困境，都为主角们的爱情增添了沉甸甸的现实重量。那些看似是爱情的障碍，实则都是时代洪流的投影。作者对于历史细节的考据之扎实，让人不禁查阅相关资料来印证书中的某些场景，这种知性的愉悦感，是在一般纯粹的消遣读物中难以获得的。

这本《英语浪漫史》的书名听起来就让人充满了期待，我一直对英国文学，尤其是那个风云变幻的时代背景下的爱情故事情有独钟。拿到书时，厚实的装帧和古朴的封面设计，已经先声夺人地把我拉入了那个遥远的、充满玫瑰与誓言的年代。我迫不及待地翻开扉页，首先映入眼帘的是作者对于时代氛围的细致铺陈，那种笔触的细腻程度，仿佛能让人闻到潮湿的伦敦雾气，感受到摄政时期舞会上丝绸摩擦的沙沙声。书中的人物塑造极其立体，没有一个是扁平的脸谱化角色。男主角的矛盾与挣扎，女主角的独立与坚韧，都被刻画得入木三分。我尤其欣赏作者对情感细节的捕捉，那种欲言又止的眼神，一次不经意的触碰，背后隐藏的却是千言万语的情愫暗涌，读起来简直让人心头小鹿乱撞。

总的来说，这是一本值得反复阅读的佳作，它远超出了我对一部以“浪漫”为主题的小说的期待。它更像是一部关于人性、关于时代、关于如何在重压下守护内心真挚情感的深刻探讨。书中对于友谊、家庭责任和个人抱负的探讨，丝毫不逊色于其核心的爱情线索。我特别喜欢其中一个配角——那位老妇人导师的角色，她的智慧和对世事的洞察，为整个故事增添了一层哲学的厚度。阅读过程更像是一次旅行，一次与那些鲜活的人物同呼吸共命运的精神洗礼。这本书的价值，绝不仅仅在于提供了一个美好的幻想，更在于它提供了一种看待生活与爱的全新视角。

记一下这本书 很有用 我两篇论文都能用得上

记一下这本书 很有用 我两篇论文都能用得上

记一下这本书 很有用 我两篇论文都能用得上

记一下这本书 很有用 我两篇论文都能用得上

记一下这本书 很有用 我两篇论文都能用得上