雷蒙德·威廉斯（Raymond Williams，1921-1988），英国卓越的小说家、社会理论家和文化评论家，在文化研究领域里影响深远。他关于政治文化、大众传媒与文学的著作在西方马克思主义文化与艺术评论领域做出了重大贡献。

雷蒙德·威廉斯（Raymond Williams，1921-1988），英国卓越的小说家、社会理论家和文化评论家，在文化研究领域里影响深远。他关于政治文化、大众传媒与文学的著作在西方马克思主义文化与艺术评论领域做出了重大贡献。

The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novel argues that the fo...(展开全部)

In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable, another compared to writers of "strip cartoon stories". But the general tone is warmly appreciative of every sort of book within...(展开全部)

安德烈·布林克（André Brink, 1935-2015）是著名的南非小说家、翻译家、文学理论家、种族隔离制度坚定的反对者、南非开普敦大学英语文学教授、美国普林斯顿大学客座教授。 创作的小说作品有：《风中一瞬》《干燥的白季节》《余音袅袅》《南辕北辙》《沙漠随想》等，这些作品已被翻译成三十多种文字。

"The novel, Brink argues, is not about representation but the self-conscious play of language. From its inception, he suggests, the genre has been about the act of writing and self-reflection. This thesis is not new but is part of the currency of postmodern literary theory. Brink, himself a noted South African novelist, the author of some 12 books, including "A Dry White Season...(展开全部)

This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the twentieth century. In an astonishing display of erudition, David Katz recreates the response of readers from different eras by examining the "horizon of expect...(展开全部)