Robert Scholes Knihy

Reexamines the development and the popular conception of narrative literature and looks at meaning, characterization, plot, and point of view in various narrative forms.

"The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection."-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement

This is both an introduction to an overwhelming popular literary genre and a stimulating analysis of its literary, socal, and scientific elements. Contains detailed discussions of the most significant writers,a nd of ten representative novels from 1818 to 1976.

„Mojim zámerom bolo napísať kapitolu o morálnej histórii svojej vlasti a za kulisu som si zvolil Dublin, pretože toto mesto sa mi zdalo stredobodom paralýzy.“ Kniha poviedok v preklade Božice Vilikovskej.