Shakespeare for Screenwriters is the first book to use Shakespeare’s works to examine the fundamentals of screenwriting. The book offers insight into what makes Shakespeare’s creations so powerful by analyzing the timeless themes in his greatest works and translating them into practical writing advice. Geared to all levels of interest and experience in both Shakespeare and scre...(展开全部)

帕梅拉·道格拉斯（Pamela Douglas）是一位在电视剧业有众多作品的获奖编剧。她凭借一小时剧《母女》（Between Mother and Daughter）［CBS］荣获人道主义奖，该剧也被提名编剧工会奖。 她凭借CBS一小时剧《不同的世界》（Different Worlds）荣获艾美奖提名和有色人种促进协会形象奖。她凭借原创剧《性骚扰案》（Sexual Considerations）和电视剧《生命中的一年》（A Year in the Life，NBC）的分集What Do People Do All Day?两次赢得广播电视界杰出美国女性奖。 作为创作者，她写了PBS电视剧《鬼语者》（Ghostwriter）的试播集、指南和13集。其它署名包括《星际旅行：下一代》（Star Trek: The Next Generation）、《弗兰克...(展开全部)

Narrative designers and game designers are critical to the development of digital and analog games. This book provides a detailed look at the work writers and designers perform every day on game development projects. It includes practical advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer or game designer. Readers can use the templates and detailed instructions provided ...(展开全部)

Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's originals. Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, Tales from Shakespeare provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, an...(展开全部)

Emphasizing "reader expectations," this composition text provides an insightful guide to writing clearly and effectively. Reflecting on the author's decades of experience as an international writing consultant, writer, and instructor, The Sense of Structure teaches writing from the perspective of readers. This text demonstrates that readers have relatively fixed expectations o...(展开全部)

Eric Hayot is professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of On Literary Worlds, The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (co-recipient of the 2010 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize), and Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel. He has worked for the Columbus Dispatch and the Associa...(展开全部)

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious student...(展开全部)

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata ca...(展开全部)

Review "Compulsively readable...Any writer who can get his audience to ask breathlessly, 'What next?' needs no help from this or any other envious reviewer". -- New York Times Book Review From the Back Cover WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among ...(展开全部)

促使布鲁姆出面澄清文学经典的统一和美学价值的，是他对目前横行西方的文化多元主义以及克隆自法德的理论的不满，他将这些称之为“愤怒学派”（School of Resentment）对文学侮辱，还特别对所谓“文化资本”在文学研究中的滥用冷嘲热讽。布鲁姆便勇敢列举了自己反对的名单：艾略特的新批评、保罗·德·曼的解构主义、所谓的新左派和老右派，还有“愤怒学派”的六个分支：女性主义者，马克思主义者，拉康派，新历史主义者，解构主义者，符号学派等。它们都纷纷对文学经典指手划脚，要求拓展新经典的呼声越来越高。布鲁姆嘲笑这类文学研究者是“业余的社会政治家、半吊子社会学家、不胜任的人类学家、平庸的哲学家以及武断的文化史家”，无疑布鲁姆因此而树敌众多，但无论是他的敌人还是暗中的支持者都会钦佩他坚持己见的勇气。他不在乎别人的嘲笑，因为他认定“对经典性的预言需要作家死后两代人左...(展开全部)