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The Man in the Machine
Marvin Mudrick
出版Berkshire Publishing Group, 2018-01-01
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralFiction / Science Fiction / General
ISBN16147287209781614728726
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B5C8DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Man in the Machine consists of lively, iconoclastic assessments of major writers and critics by Marvin Mudrick, about whom the critic Roger Sale wrote: "T. S. Eliot was not so good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick." The book takes its title from Mudrick’s introduction, in which he writes about Edgar Allan Poe’s pervasive influence on modern literature: "[Poe] had the effrontery to palm off on us the silliest, least interesting, and most influential of twentieth-century critical dogmas: that books are machines with nobody inside." Writing about such masters as Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Jane Austen, Trollope, Saint-Simon, Conrad, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn, Mudrick shows us the pyrotechnics that can occur when a towering intellect meets characters from the past with all dogma and theories of literature tossed to the wind.