The ethics of literature, formalists argue, resides in the moral quality of a character, a story, perhaps the relation between author and reader. But in the wake of deconstruction, the ethical question has been freshly engaged by literary studies, and on this approach Adam Newton focuses. His book makes a case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and nec...(展开全部)

In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that mythos yielded to logos not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle," but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded ...(展开全部)

In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that mythos yielded to logos not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle," but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded ...(展开全部)

In this book, the author offers an analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films. She also takes on the myth that modern Hollywood films are based on a narrative system radically different from the one in use during the golden age of the studio system. Drawing on a wide range of films from the 19...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 R. C.列万廷（R.C. Lewontin， 1929—2021），世界知名遗传学家、进化生物学家，曾荣获瑞典皇家科学院克拉福德奖、美国自然学家学会塞沃尔·赖特奖等。他是发展群体遗传学和进化论数学基础的先驱，率先将分子生物学应用于遗传变异、生物进化等领域。他曾于美国北卡罗来纳州立大学、罗彻斯特大学、芝加哥大学和哈佛大学任教。著有《三重螺旋：基因、有机体、环境》（The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment）等，长期为《纽约书评》（The New York Review of Books）供稿。 ··· 【译者简介】 罗文静：香港大学跨学科语言教学硕士，从事英文教学，曾担任市级政务翻译。