The Pleasures of Reading: In an Ideological AgeSimon and Schuster, 1989 - 250 من الصفحات Alter not only speaks about the distinctive pleasures of reading poems, plays, and novels, but shows, by recourse to many passages from English, American, and French literature, how rich and diverse these pleasures can be. Defining literary language as "an intricate, inventively designed vehicle for setting the mind in restless pleasing motion," he proposes a set of concepts that will point a return to reading. He also offers fresh explanations of familiar terms such as character, structure, allusions, and perspective, and analyzes various texts. ISBN 0-671-62783-X: $18.95. |
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الصفحة 81
... syntactic order . If style is , among other things , the deviation from a norm , or at least from statistically preponderant usage , the " normal " way to make this statement would be : Love is the universal agent upon every other stage ...
... syntactic order . If style is , among other things , the deviation from a norm , or at least from statistically preponderant usage , the " normal " way to make this statement would be : Love is the universal agent upon every other stage ...
الصفحة 82
... syntactic pattern is then deployed flamboyantly in the next , long sentence , which withholds the revelation of its subject until the climactic flourish of its last seven words , “ is the business of a modern dramatist . ” Such grand ...
... syntactic pattern is then deployed flamboyantly in the next , long sentence , which withholds the revelation of its subject until the climactic flourish of its last seven words , “ is the business of a modern dramatist . ” Such grand ...
الصفحة 147
... syntactic specification is to make the off - balance hips and bellies stick out as almost autonomous objects , and to isolate and emphasize “ to turn them , ” con- veying an image of sheer pivotal motion , barely subordinated to syntactic ...
... syntactic specification is to make the off - balance hips and bellies stick out as almost autonomous objects , and to isolate and emphasize “ to turn them , ” con- veying an image of sheer pivotal motion , barely subordinated to syntactic ...
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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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Aeneid aesthetic alliteration alluding text allusion Anna Karenina aspects beauty beginning Bible biblical century chapter character character's coherent complex consciousness context convention conveyed criticism Crusoe's cultural Dalloway death Dowell Dunciad elaborate elements Emily Dickinson evoked text example experience expression fact feel fiction figure first-person formal genre Hebrew Hebrew Bible human ideological imagery imagination intertextual Jane Austen Jeremiah kind King James Version Kitty language of literature linguistic literary text look means metaphor midrashic mimesis Moby-Dick narrated monologue narrative narratologists narrator's novel novelistic observed passage pattern perception 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 Tzvetan Todorov verbal Verloc woman words writer zeugma