Reading Like a Writer

图书信息

作者	Prose, Francine
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780061751899
出版时间	2009-03-17
字数	40.1万
分类	HarperCollins e-books,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to writeBy reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer , Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch . She looks to John Le Carr for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.

目录

ONE: Close Reading

TWO: Words

THREE: Sentences

FOUR: Paragraphs

FIVE: Narration

SIX: Character

SEVEN: Dialogue

EIGHT: Details

NINE: Gesture

TEN: Learning from Chekhov

ELEVEN: Reading for Courage

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