The Pleasures of Reading: In an Ideological AgeW. W. Norton & Company, 1996 - 250 páginas From one of our premier literary scholars, here is a learned and witty introduction to the "sheer vitality of literature and the satisfactions of a close, informed engagement with it" (New York Times). Robert Alter's illumination of the unique power of reading literature is especially valuable at a time when we are surrounded by electronic texts that distract more than engage and when the special claims of literature are disparaged by the high priests of literary theory. Alter explores the strategies that distinguish literature--the resources of style, the dynamics of allusion, the formal design of structure, the play of perspective in narrative. He draws on copious examples from the great works of literary art--from the Book of Genesis to Shakespeare, Conrad, and Nabokov--to illustrate his analysis of what makes reading a source of complex pleasure and insight. |
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Índice
Preface to the Norton Edition 39 | 9 |
The Difference of Literature | 23 |
Character and the Connection with Reality | 49 |
Style | 77 |
Allusion | 111 |
Structure | 141 |
Perspective | 171 |
Multiple Readings and the Bog | 206 |
Notes | 239 |
245 | |
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Términos y frases comunes
actually Aeneid aesthetic alliteration alluding text allusion Anna Karenina aspects beginning Bible biblical century chapter character character's coherent complex consciousness context convention conveyed criticism Crusoe's cultural Dalloway death distinctive Dowell Dunciad elaborate elements Emily Dickinson evoked text example experience fact feel fiction figure first-person formal Genesis genre Greenwich Park Hebrew Hebrew Bible historical human ideological imagery imagination intertextual Jane Austen kind King James Version Kitty language of literature linguistic literary text look means metaphor midrashic mimesis Moby-Dick movement narrative narratology narrator's novel novelistic observed passage pattern perception perhaps perspective play pleasure plot Pnin poem poetic poetry possibilities prose psycho-narration reader reading realist reference relation Rênal representation Robinson Crusoe scene sense sentence sequence sonnet speaker speech squirrel stanza Stendhal stereotype story structure style stylistic suggest syntactic syntax thematic thou tion Tom Jones tradition verbal Verloc woman words writer zeugma
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