【预订】Five Fictions in Search of Truth 9780691171234
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/ 2016-07-26
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780691171234 Author 作者 Myra Jehlen Format 版本 平装-胶订 Pages Number 页数 192页 Publisher 出版社 Princeton University Press Publication Date 出版日期 2016-07-26 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.4 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 640g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust’s famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammb?, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nab
¥177.00
【预订】Readings at the Edge of Literature 9780226396002
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/ 2002-06-01
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780226396002 Author 作者 Jehlen Format 版本 精装 Pages Number 页数 246页 Publisher 出版社 University of Chicago Press Publication Date 出版日期 2002-06-01 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 23.4 x 15.4 x 2 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 0.5 kg Language 语种 其它(含多语) Book Contents 内容简介 Myra Jehlen’s aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real. It is here, she argues, that the central paradoxes of the American project become clear--self-reliance and responsibility, universal equality and the pursuit of empire, writing from the heart and representing shared values and ideas. Developing these paradoxes to their utmost tension, American writers often produce penetrating critiques of
¥750.00