Tom Foster is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he teaches classes in contemporary fiction, drama and poetry as well as creative writing and composition. He has written several books on twentieth-century British and Irish literature and poetry and lives in East Lansing, Michigan.
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history.
Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors' choices about structure—point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity—create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.
很棒的一本书,既分解了概念和理念,也引用段落进行具体解读。作者为美国密歇根大学教授,具有相当强的热爱和广阔的阅读量。读这样的书你会感动,因为最令人着迷的两种阐述,无非是高超的技艺和深沉的热爱,而这本书两者兼具。 一开始作者就论及叙述。叙述是小说的关键,作者会...
评分开篇法则:开篇是如何阅读小说的第一课。 虚构地点法则:一个虚构作品里的地点绝不是真的地方,但必须表现的真实。 谁在说话法则:虚构作品的叙述者是想象和语言的产物,跟小说中的人物或事件一样。 叙述不可信法则:当你看见“我”一词,就不要再相信叙述者。 听懂声音法则:...
评分顾名思义,这是一本讲阅读方法,也是讲文学(小说)创作的书,既然是理论性的作品就还是引用作者自己的文字来展示。在每章大致梳理提炼了一些文字,讲述其中心主题,不全面,也舍弃掉了大量示例,只是对这本书整体进行一些展示,仅为管中窥豹,也权当读书笔记。 另外,通读全...
评分读小说究竟能读出什么?《如何阅读一本小说》回答了这个问题。经验尚浅的读者只注意表面的情节,容易忽视埋藏其下的众多控制要素。叙事角度、句法风格、词汇选择等技术手段,才是小说如此精彩的最重要原因。这本书引导读者有意识地分析它们,从而将小说开掘得更深。 本...
评分阅读体验非常糟糕。 书名赫然“如何阅读一本小说”八个大字,但读完自问,它讲出了如何阅读一本小说的经验、方法论了吗?没有。读的过程中,我犹疑它是在说,怎样“写”小说吧?比如不时出现从作者视角的表述,「如果你想在小说中使用多重声音,你必须让他们有所分别」,这分明...
废话连篇,言之无物,充斥着无处不在的低级的文字游戏。作者始终在避实就虚,蜻蜓点水,说些人所共知的话,对于如何感受和把握小说则几无分析可言。章节标题取得哗众取宠,似乎深得营销学真传,内容则不过是包装过的空壳而已。
评分泛泛读了一半左右
评分后面几章有点无力了
评分Better than the Lit one
评分Better than the Lit one
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