Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature
N a r r a t i v e 9 1 need to be carried out of Twelfth Night convulsed with hysterical laughter. * * * Omniscient narrators nee ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 9 2 script. We would be intrigued to learn more of her view of Paul, but are allowed no ac ...
N a r r a t i v e 9 3 that all the characters have their say. Even the bloodless Casaubon must be shown as a feeling, suffering ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 9 4 Hardy’s treatment of Tess Durbeyfield in Tess of the D’Urbervilles makes a telling con ...
N a r r a t i v e 9 5 as though by a south- of- England observer glimpsing it from a train. The novel’s hero is Stephen Blackpoo ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 9 6 well- rounded character. He is just a kind of blank at the novel’s centre, as lightwei ...
N a r r a t i v e 9 7 animals who take over their farm and try to run it themselves, with disastrous results. As such, the novel ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 9 8 group of frightened schoolchildren failing to evolve the equivalent of the United Nati ...
N a r r a t i v e 9 9 Milton the theologian takes over from Milton the humanist, as doctrine gets the better of drama. There are ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 0 0 Moll Flanders to tell the story would be as unthinkable as allowing a giraffe to nar ...
N a r r a t i v e 1 0 1 seen as tragic. They are to be swept out of the way so that others may find their own fulfilment unimped ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 0 2 our sense of his virtue. Virtue is not supposed to be self- regarding. So the plot h ...
N a r r a t i v e 1 0 3 Henry James, who was unafraid of tragic outcomes, writes sardonically in his essay ‘The Art of Fiction’ ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 0 4 in the end?’, keeps us eagerly reading. It is one reason we are so entranced by thri ...
N a r r a t i v e 1 0 5 there is a logic implicit in reality, and that the task of the novel is to bring it patiently to light. ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 0 6 start, however, you may be sure that an enormous amount will have happened already. ...
N a r r a t i v e 1 0 7 then, as the anthropologist Claude Lévi- Strauss has put it, it must have been born ‘at a stroke’. So th ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 0 8 inevitable ignorance. Narratives must find a way of suggesting that there could be m ...
N a r r a t i v e 1 0 9 to call the novel after its protagonist, but changed her mind and called it after his less disreputable ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 1 0 official, arrived in Africa as a champion of progress and enlighten- ment, and has n ...
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