How to Read Literature
内容简介
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to the study of literature and for all other readers interested in deepening their understanding and enriching their reading experience. In a series of brilliant analyses, Eagleton shows how to read with due attention to tone, rhythm, texture, syntax, allusion, ambiguity, and other formal aspects of literary works. He also examines broader questions of character, plot, narrative, the creative imagination, the meaning of fictionality, and the tension between what works of literature say and what they show. Unfailingly authoritative and cheerfully opinionated, the author provides useful commentaries on classicism, Romanticism, modernism and postmodernism along with spellbinding insights into a huge range of authors, from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Samuel Beckett and J. K. Rowling.
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作者简介
Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of Literature, University of Lancaster, UK, and Excellence in English Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame. One of the most influential literary critics in the English-speaking world, he is the author of more than 40 books on literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion, among them his best-selling Literary Theory: An Introduction. He lives in Northern Ireland, UK.
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读书文摘
怪癖使怪人成为囚徒，正如习俗使常人成为囚徒。这样，在我们身处的社会里，大家都成了自己的标尺。人人各行其是，无论这意味着咬啮自己的妻子，还是在口袋里叮叮当当地摆弄零钱。可是，这绝非一般人所想象的真正自由。共同的标准几乎已经崩塌殆尽，真正的沟通也因此中止。人们改用自创的词汇和晦涩的暗语讲话。他们彼此之间与其说是相互关联，还不如说是随意碰撞。
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