What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from "What Maisie Knew "to "Make Way for Ducklings"--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel "and Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style." It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
詹姆斯•伍德(James Wood,1965— ),英國著名文學評論傢、作傢,現任哈佛大學文學批評實踐教授和《紐約客》專欄作傢。
一、福楼拜与现代叙事:文体风格,自由间接体,细节 如果作者与笔下人物完全融为一体,整本书始终只有一个人的不断独白,那这本书就会显得无聊至极。而如果作者和人物分得太开,敏感的读者又会感受到出戏的违和感,认为作者是在说教。所以,每个作家都得学会借助自由间接体或者...
評分If the book has a larger argument, it is that fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities. 细节: Free indirect speech见于细节之中:认真辨别是谁在说话 Free indirect style is a...
評分即使在阅读了一些质量不错的文学评论和文学史之后,我仍然会对文学理论的意义持怀疑态度,尤其是将文学像朝代或国家一样,以各种“主义”和“流派”划分开来。但同时,我又绞尽脑汁想要掌握和厘清这些“主义”们的来龙去脉,因为文学世界实在过于庞杂,就像一团团聚集或游离的...
評分《琅琊榜》近来比较火,好奇之下,把书和剧都找来看了,然后有点窝火,因为浪费了好几天时间。这么低劣的东西,被捧上神坛,奉为良心之作,可见今日之中国,神不过就是地摊上卖的泥塑木雕,良心属于同样廉价的玩意儿。 那谁说了,没有省察的人生是不值得过的人生,因此我反思了...
評分如果排去racist, sexist的部分,還是可以讀的....但是這樣的書讀來乾什麼呢?
评分感覺就跟他上課一個風格,筆頭很誠實
评分為Wood心目中的現實主義-lifeness正名之作,和巴特乾瞭一架。然而立論平實,殊無新意,更像是一本稀釋瞭的微觀批評普及讀物。
评分感受真的很敏銳啊!
评分筆下有鐵
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