Youyou Novel Forest: Eco's Harvard-norton Lectures
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"Wandering in the Novel Forest" is a collection of six lectures from Umberto Eco's Norton Lectures at Harvard University. It is not only six novel theory classes, but also a guide to literary reading and writing. How does the text signal the search for the ideal reader? How does a reader read a novel correctly? How can you identify exemplary authors and decipher their textual strategies? In this book, Eco fully demonstrates his ability to turn boring semiotics and narrative theory into a kind of intellectual pleasure and mental enlightenment. With clinical precision, he uses concepts such as model readers and model authors, novel stories and plots, story time and narrative time, to peel off the technical aspects of the text, investigate the mysteries hidden in the form and technique of the novel, and then explore the relationship between novels and life, imagination and reality, as well as the deep reasons why people are fascinated by novels. Whether it's Nerval, Proust, Joyce, Dante, Alexandre Dumas, Agatha Christie, or Ian Fleming, Eco follows the instructions and guides readers to appreciate their artistic charm at his intellectual level while uncovering the mystery of these writers' works. He even allows readers to become his apprentices and get lost step by step in the deep and dense forest of the novel.
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