作者简介

Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

内容简介

The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms--such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"--have become part of the standard critical lexicon.

For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years--two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."


Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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  • 王熊daddy
    一百年来,写小说、译小说、看小说是中国人看世界、看自己的重要途径。要想研究小说就要先有好的研究方法。这本书就很有用了。04-11
  • 书白
    "小说修辞的根本问题是作者决定应该为谁写作的问题"12-25
  • ி狗仔
    如果不是被逼着做pre 很难逼自己费劲的读理论 好在这一本很好懂 还要多啃几遍 寒假请认真学理论!12-26
  • 红河谷的莲儿
    终于知道implied author到底是什么了.....official versions of himself in his works, sum total of his choices, etc.....Henry James是Wayne Booth着意品评的人物。07-08
  • 费纸姬
    “True Artists write only for themselves.”11-18

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