Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself. He traces the history of names through Homer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Thackeray, Dickens, Joyce, and Nabokov, showing how names often turn out to be the thematic focus. Fowler shows that the associations of names, at first limited, become increasingly salient and sophisticated as literature itself develops.
Alastair Fowler is Regius Professor Emeritus of Edinburgh University, and was previously Professor of English at the University of Virginia. For many years he divided his time between the United States and Britain, where he now lives. His publications include an annotated edition of Paradise Lost (1968); Kinds of Literature (1982); and Renaissance Realism (2003). His interest in literary names goes back to his Witter Bynner lecture at Harvard in 1974.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n22/colin-burrow/i-lowborn-cur原文链接原文链接 Colin Burrow James Bond was a well-known ornithologist. His Birds of the West Indies is an unusually rich source of names. According to Bond, the Sooty Tern is also known as the Egg Bir...
评分http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n22/colin-burrow/i-lowborn-cur原文链接原文链接 Colin Burrow James Bond was a well-known ornithologist. His Birds of the West Indies is an unusually rich source of names. According to Bond, the Sooty Tern is also known as the Egg Bir...
评分http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n22/colin-burrow/i-lowborn-cur原文链接原文链接 Colin Burrow James Bond was a well-known ornithologist. His Birds of the West Indies is an unusually rich source of names. According to Bond, the Sooty Tern is also known as the Egg Bir...
评分http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n22/colin-burrow/i-lowborn-cur原文链接原文链接 Colin Burrow James Bond was a well-known ornithologist. His Birds of the West Indies is an unusually rich source of names. According to Bond, the Sooty Tern is also known as the Egg Bir...
评分http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n22/colin-burrow/i-lowborn-cur原文链接原文链接 Colin Burrow James Bond was a well-known ornithologist. His Birds of the West Indies is an unusually rich source of names. According to Bond, the Sooty Tern is also known as the Egg Bir...
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评分我必须承认,这本书对我的情感冲击是相当深远的,它不是那种廉价的煽情,而是通过对人性深层结构——那些我们平时选择性遗忘或压抑的部分——的毫不留情地剖析,达成了共鸣。角色塑造的立体感令人叹为观止,他们身上那种难以言喻的“真实性”让我时常忘记自己正在阅读虚构的故事。作者似乎拥有某种近乎残酷的洞察力,能精准地捕捉到人类在面对困境、欲望与道德冲突时的那种摇摆不定和自我欺骗。我读到一些关于选择与后果的描写时,简直像被当头棒喝,那种感觉是,‘天哪,这不就是我一直不敢承认的自己吗?’它迫使我跳出日常的惯性思维,去审视自己行为背后的驱动力。这种深入骨髓的心理刻画,让这本书远超一般的消遣读物,更像是一次私人化的、略带疼痛的自我认知之旅。
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