"How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of that sort might serve to provide a subtitle for these various discussions of various authors, for my plan is to deal lovingly, in loving and lingering detail, with several European Masterpieces. A hundred years ago, Flaubert ...
“Good Readers and Good Writers” (from Lectures on Literature)Vladimir Nabokov (originally delivered in 1948)My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of that sort ...
内容提示:“Good Readers and Good Writers” (from Lectures on Literature) Vladimir Nabokov (originally delivered in 1948) My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures. "How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of...
One of the biggest disappointments, many readers will agree, is when a writer lets a story peter out and does not do justice to the story’s central idea. Many writers use anti-climax to subtle effect. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s surreal novelThe Unconsoled(1995), the reader is made to expect ...
Good Readers and Good Writers By Vladimir Nabokov "How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of that sort might serve to provide a subtitle for these various discussions of various authors, for my plan is to deal lovingly, in loving and lingering detail, with several ...