书籍介绍
这不是一本教你标准答案的文学工具书,而是一套唤醒阅读直觉的'解码器'。它最打动人的地方,在于把看似高冷的文学理论,还原成读者在真实阅读中会自然生出的疑问:一场雨为什么'从来不只是雨'?吸血鬼故事'从来不只是讲吸血鬼'?当作者告诉你,华尔街经纪人的贪婪与窃取他人生命的吸血鬼同出一辙时,象征不再是符号,而成了照进现实的镜子。读者反复提到的,正是这种'按图索骥找书'的快感——它让你读完《了不起的盖茨比》,再看到那场酷热天气,便不由自主地警觉起来。它适合那些'觉得文学更深处的意思总在 ускользать'的普通人:不摆架子,不背术语,只靠'看得够多、想得够深',就能在反复出现的情景里,听出故事主旋律之外的弦外之音。
作者简介
Thomas C. Foster studied English at Dartmouth College and then Michigan State University. He has been a professor of literature and writing since 1975, the last twenty-one years at the University of Michigan–Flint. In that time, he's learned more about literature from his students than in all the classes he's taken over the years. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Novels Like a Professor and How to Read Literature Like a Professor.