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Ladataan... Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction (1997)Tekijä: John Sutherland
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Sutherland is an expert in Victorian literature, and has a ability to write about it in a way that is educational without being pompous, stuffy, or academic. In fact, I wish I would have had his examples of essays before I started on my university career. Anyway, I've enjoyed them now. This is a collection of 32 essays on conundrums you may or may not have noticed while reading the classics. He extends his time period on either side of 19th century, and finishes with an excellent essay on Mrs Dalloway titled "Clarissa's Invisible Taxi." ( ) including: Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) How many pianos has Amelia Sedley? (Vanity Fair) Is Black Beauty gelded? (Black Beauty) What cure for the madwoman in the attic? (The Yellow Wallpaper) Wanted deaf-and-dumb dog feeder (The Hound of the Baskervilles) After the publication of his earlier book, "Is Heathcliff a Murderer?" (which I haven't read), the author was inundated with letters from readers eager to tell him their thoughts about the puzzles he had included and suggest other mysteries for him to investigate, so he had plenty of material for a second book. I've read about a third of the books featured, but the author makes it interesting even for those books that I hadn't read. In this book, a follow-up to his Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, Sutherland seeks to answer questions that most of us have never asked. Some are unanswerable, except by reaching for that old chestnut, "even Homer nods"! But, for others, he actually comes up with reasonable (or not wildly unreasonable) explanations. And it's rather fun getting there. Have you ever wondered what is in Heathcliff's will? Or what the Prynnes were doing in Boston? Neither have I. Nevertheless, I enjoyed Sutherland's attempts to answer these and other literary conundrums. He has a fine sense of humor, taking none of this too seriously. His disquisition on the question, "What is Elfride's rope made of?" (Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, had me in stitches. It's not even necessary to have read the books (does anyone, not a college English major, actually read Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier these days), you'll find plenty of diversion, anyway. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinKuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinSisältyy tähän:On tekstiselostus tälle:Kotiopettajattaren romaani (tekijä: Charlotte Brontë) Humiseva harju (tekijä: Emily Brontë) Suuria odotuksia (tekijä: Charles Dickens) Emma (tekijä: Jane Austen) Tulipunainen kirjain (tekijä: Nathaniel Hawthorne) Oliver Twist (tekijä: Charles Dickens) Robinson Crusoe (tekijä: Daniel Defoe) Kasvattitytön tarina (tekijä: Jane Austen) Mrs Dalloway (tekijä: Virginia Woolf) Tessin tarina (tekijä: Thomas Hardy) Uljas Musta : hevosen tarina (tekijä: Anna Sewell) Baskervillen koira (tekijä: Arthur Conan Doyle) Kolea talo (tekijä: Charles Dickens) Viimeinen mohikaani (tekijä: James Fenimore Cooper) Mylly joen rannalla (tekijä: George Eliot) Tom Jones (tekijä: Henry Fielding) Barchester Towers (tekijä: Anthony Trollope) Kelpo sotilas (tekijä: Ford Madox Ford) Merisusi (tekijä: Jack London) Rehdin miehen rakkaus (tekijä: George Eliot) Shirley (tekijä: Charlotte Brontë) Daniel Deronda (tekijä: George Eliot) Fanny Hill, ilotytön muistelmat (tekijä: John Cleland) The Woodlanders (tekijä: Thomas Hardy) Sininen silmäpari (tekijä: Thomas Hardy) Korallisaari (tekijä: R. M. Ballantyne) Armadale (tekijä: Wilkie Collins) Felix Holt, the Radical (tekijä: George Eliot) Ralph the Heir (tekijä: Anthony Trollope)
The exciting sequel to the enormously successful Is Heathcliff A Murderer?, John Sutherland's latest collection of literary puzzles, Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? turns up unexpected and brain-teasing aspects of the range of canonical British and American fiction represented in the World's Classics list. With bold imaginative speculation he investigates thirty-four literary conundrums, ranging from Daniel Defoe to Virginia Woolf. Covering issues well beyond the strict confines of Victorian fiction, Sutherland explores the questions readers often ask but critics rarely discuss: Why does Robinson Crusoe find only one footprint? How does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? Whose side is Hawkeye on? And how does Clarissa Dalloway get home so quickly? As in its universally well received predecessor, the questions and answers in Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? are ingenious and convincing, and return the reader with new respect to the great novels they celebrate. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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