READING STYLE: A LIFE IN SENTENCES
Book ID/图书代码： 00500014B73958
English Summary/英文概要： A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences that turn reading into a highly personal and political act. Melding her experiences as reader and critic, Davidson opens new vistas onto works by Jane Austen, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Pynchon; adds richer dimension to critiques of W. G. Sebald, Alan Hollinghurst, Thomas Bernhard, and Karl OveKnausgaard; and allows for a sophisticated appreciation of popular fictions by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lionel Shriver, George Pelecanos, and Helen DeWitt. She privileges diction, syntax, point of view, and structure over plot and character, identifying the intimate mechanics that draw us in to literature’s sensual frameworks and move us to feel, identify, and relate. Davidson concludes with a reading list of her favorite titles so others can share in her literary adventures and get to know better the imprint of her own reading style.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一个教授、评论家、嗜书如命者，珍妮•戴维森发现了令我们醉心于某些语句而甚于其它的情感，她还发现了更广泛意义上我们与写作风格的关系。幽默又严肃，深入而富有剖析性，她的这本书展示了（写作）风格是怎么引申出各种道德价值判断以及主观偏好是如何将阅读变成高度个性化和政治化的行为。混合了自己作为一个读者和评论家的经验，戴维森对简•奥斯丁、亨利•詹姆斯、马克•普鲁斯特及汤姆逊•伯恩哈德的作品有了新的诠释；她在对W.G.泽尔巴德、阿兰•霍林、汤姆逊•伯恩哈德及卡尔•尼尔•盖安的评论文中添加了更多层次的维度；她对史蒂芬•金、尼尔•盖安、莱昂纳尔•仕力弗、乔治•派勒卡诺斯及海伦•德维特的畅销小说考虑到了一个精致的欣赏角度。相对于情节和人物，她更推崇措辞、句法、观点、结构，确信紧凑结构会使我们沉迷于文学的感性架构，让我们能够感知、鉴别和联系。戴维森总结了她最喜欢的标题名单，因而除了得以分享她大胆的文学性，我们还能更进一步的了解她自己阅读风格的特征。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：戴维森是个每个作者都希望的理想读者，她能够捕捉每个细微差别和每个伏笔所在，对韵律、感情色彩和搭配很敏感。她不仅仅是读那些涵义肤浅的表面的东西，而且会去体察纯粹靠风格才能表达的各个层次的意义。她的书是一份礼物和深层的愉悦，因为让她成为如此善良的读者的是她也是位一流的作家。——卢克•桑特，Low Life Charming作者，学者，《出版人周刊》3/31/2014
珍妮•戴维森有着罕见的天赋，善于平和地分析——理解力强，从不把官方，权威，个人混为一谈。读读她从马克•普鲁斯特到薇恩•科斯腾以及乔纳森•莱瑟和乔治•艾略特的讨论就像是和一位打开了图书宝库的睿智友人为伴：她给以启迪而从不傲慢，她乐于分享措辞巧妙的了乐趣又能从发现糟糕措辞中得到满足。我喜欢在书页中与她为伴，从她巧妙的例证中得到灵感。——瑞贝卡•麦德，My Life in Middlemarch作者。
一如既往的对经典小说（偶尔会是非经典）极富洞察力——泰勒•考文 《边际革命》
这本书价值非凡——凯特•沃莫斯利 《泰晤士报文学增刊》
Davidson is the ideal reader every writer wishes for, who catches every nuance and every sly allusion, who is alive to rhythm and color and orchestration. She does not just read for that ostensibly load-bearing stuff that is labeled ’meaning,’ but detects all of the layers of meaning that are conveyed purely by style. Her book is a gift and a deep pleasure, because what makes her such a virtuoso reader is that she is also a first-rate writer. -- Luc Sante, author of Low Life Charming and erudite. Publishers Weekly 3/31/14 Jenny Davidson has the rare gift of being warmly analytical -- highly intelligent but never mandarin, authoritative and intimate at the same time. Reading her discussions of writers ranging from Marcel Proust to Wayne Koestenbaum -- by way of Jonathan Lethem and George Eliot -- is like being in the company of a very clever friend as she unfolds the treasures of her bookshelf: one who enlightens without condescension, and who is eager to share the pleasures of a well-turned sentence while also being able to point out the satisfactions to be found in a bad one. I loved being in her company on the page, and left it inspired by her appetitive example. -- Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch Consistently insightful into classic (and sometimes not so classic) fiction. -- Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution 6/15/14 There is much to value here. -- Kate Womersley Times Literary Supplement 7/18/
About the Author/作者介绍： 珍妮•戴维森在哥伦比亚大学教授英语和比较文学。她已出版两本关于十八世纪英国文学的书，包括《十八世纪局部历史》（Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century），出版四本小说。轻阅读（Light Reading）博客地址：http://jennydavidson.blogspot.com
Jenny Davidson teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published two books on eighteenth-century British literature, including Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century, and four novels. She blogs at Light Reading (jennydavidson.blogspot.com).
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