The Pleasures of Reading: In an Ideological AgeSimon and Schuster, 1990 - 250 páginas "In a brilliant illumination of the complexities of literature, Robert Alter explores the power and beauty of reading. With examples from the Bible, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Dickens, Wolfe, and more, he demonstrates the primacy of the reading experience. And with an incisive analysis of the writer's tools--style, character, allusion, structure, and perspective--he points the way to greater insight and appreciation"-- |
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The Disappearance of Reading | 9 |
The Difference of Literature | 23 |
Character and the Connection with Reality | 49 |
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