In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classi...(展开全部)

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied au...(展开全部)

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ign...(展开全部)

The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms--such as "the implied...(展开全部)

From Jane Austen to Paul Auster, irony to magical realism, the novelist's art is revealed in an entertaining and enlightening book for readers and writers--from the author of Nice Work. Here are 50 of David Lodge's articles from the acclaimed series that engaged and delighted readers of The Washington Post and the London Independent.

◎作者曾獲之文學與影視獎項：英國豪森登獎、約克夏郵報書獎、惠布瑞特年度最佳好書獎、兩度布克獎入圍決選、週日快報年度好書獎、作家協會獎、大英國協作家獎、影視獎項：皇家電視協會最佳戲劇類獎、蒙地卡羅國際電視影展銀翼獎 ◎哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系Edward C. Henderson講座教授王德威、台大外文系教授李欣穎、中山外文系教授林玉珍、政大台文所長陳芳明、政大外語學院院長陳超明、台大外文系教授曾麗玲、台大外文系主任劉亮雅、政大外語學院院長陳超明專文推薦 《小說的五十堂課》是當代文學評論大家，英國首席現代文學作家大衛‧洛奇為讀者量身開設的小說解析課程。他用淺顯的言詞做深入的分析，以經典作品進行最完整的舉例，在嚴謹的學術邏輯下娓娓道來，把文學史上最常出現在小說創作裡的文學技法逐一拆解。讀者閱畢後，不但會看小說，會評小說，還有可能會寫小說。 《小說的五十堂...(展开全部)

John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, a stern judge, an encouraging friend.--The New York Times Book Review.

Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan lett...(展开全部)

Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world--or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of...(展开全部)

Today we often identify artifacts with the period when they were made. In more traditional cultures, however, such objects as pictures, effigies, and buildings were valued not as much for their chronological age as for their perceived links to the remote origins of religions, nations, monasteries, and families. As a result, Christopher Wood argues, premodern Germans tended not ...(展开全部)