How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide - Hardcover

Sutherland, John

 
9781861979469: How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1861979460 ISBN 13: 9781861979469
Verlag: Profile Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This is a book about books, novels in particular: how they work, what they are about, what makes them good or bad and how to talk about them to kindred spirits.People of all ages, classes and nationalities read novels for much the same variety of reasons - to escape pain or danger, to discover the past or experience the future, to look into the intimate details of other people's lives. Since classical times readers have been sharing their experiences of literature, today they often do so in the context of a book group. Using a variety of exemplary texts How to Read a Novel forms a series of intelligent conversations, supplying readers with new questions to ask about what they read and the means and confidence to ask those questions. The word 'reading', as we customarily use it, is a very blunt instrument. We assume it's rather like riding a bicycle. You can do it (you're literate) or you can't (you're illiterate). In fact, reading well is almost as difficult as writing well. This is a kind of guidebook on how to do it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Sutherland is Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. He has published twenty books (including Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Great Puzzles in 19th Century Fiction) and writes a weekly column for the Guardian. He was chairman of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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Verlag
Profile Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1861979460
ISBN 13 
9781861979469
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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