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The Broken Estate
James Wood
其他書名
Essays on Literature and Belief
出版Random House Publishing Group, 2013-11-06
主題Literary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Collections / EssaysLiterary Criticism / Books & Reading
ISBN08041519039780804151900
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7axRAQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of religious and philosophical belief. He suggests that the steady ebb of the sea of faith has much to do with the revo-
lutionary power of the novel, as it has developed over the last two centuries. To read James Wood is to be shocked into both thinking and feeling how great our debt to the novel is.
        In the grand tradition of criticism, Wood's work is both commentary and literature in its own right--fiercely written, polemical, and richly poetic in style. This book marks the debut of a masterly literary voice.