The Pleasures of Reading: In an Ideological AgeW. W. Norton & Company, 1996 - 250 من الصفحات 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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... Ideological Age Robert Alter. The Pleasures of Reading IN AN IDEOLOGICAL AGE ROBERT ALTER With a new Preface W. W. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON This One GR1R - OJP - CNGO a kind of personal Festschrift , with affection and diffidence.
... Ideological Age Robert Alter. The Pleasures of Reading IN AN IDEOLOGICAL AGE ROBERT ALTER With a new Preface W. W. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON This One GR1R - OJP - CNGO a kind of personal Festschrift , with affection and diffidence.
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In an Ideological Age Robert Alter. a kind of personal Festschrift , with affection and diffidence Copyright © 1996 , 1989 by Robert Alter First published as a Norton paperback 1996 by arrangement with the author Printed in the United ...
In an Ideological Age Robert Alter. a kind of personal Festschrift , with affection and diffidence Copyright © 1996 , 1989 by Robert Alter First published as a Norton paperback 1996 by arrangement with the author Printed in the United ...
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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 |
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