Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's depend...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's depend...(展开全部)

斯特凡•博尔曼（Stefan Bollman） 出生于1958年，德国文学、戏剧、历史及哲学专业，以托马斯•曼为论文主题获得博士学位。除《阅读的女人危险》，博尔曼还编著有《写作的女人危险》（http://book.douban.com/subject/4745595/）、《为何阅读是快乐的》、《女人的情书》等畅销图文书。她目前定居在慕尼黑，从事教职与写作。 译者简介： 周全 1955年出生于台北市，台大历史系毕业、德国哥丁根（Göttingen）大学西洋史硕士及博士候选人，通六国语言。译者旅居欧美二十年，先后担任德国高中及大学教师、俄罗斯高科技公司总经理、美国及巴哈马高科技公司行销总经理，现为自由职业者，从事撰著及历史书籍翻译，并为《左岸电子报》撰写专栏。译作有《白玫瑰 一九四三》、《德艺百年特展》（台北故宫）、《一个德国人的故事：哈夫纳1914-1...(展开全部)

Jarrad Cogle Melbourne, Australia

Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring int...(展开全部)

"Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature pl...(展开全部)

An original interdisciplinary study positioned at the intersection of literary theory and neuroscience. "Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certai...(展开全部)

Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature. From the banishment of the c...(展开全部)

Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature. From the banishment of the c...(展开全部)

When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over women is a natural state of things? Gerda Lerner's radical review of Western civilization shows that male dominance over women ...(展开全部)