附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
The unobserved and all observers : the Gettysburg address. The Gettysburg address in 1863 ; Perversity ; Plain nonsense -- Failure and success in Ben Jonson's epitaphs for his children. On my first son ; On my first daughter -- Shakespeare's Twelfth night. Twelfth night 1.1 : the audience as Malvolio ; Getting into the spirit of Twelfth night : the audience as Malvolio again ; The last few minutes of Twelfth night.
摘要:What is it about our experience of great literature that makes us treasure these works so highly? Stephen Booth suggests that a great source, perhaps the great source, of the special appeal of our most valued works is that they are, in one way or another, utterly nonsensical. Reading the rhetorical tangles, the illogical leaps, and the most absurd imagery of three disparate texts - the Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on his children, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - Booth demonstrates how poetics triumph over logic in the "mind games" that enrich the experience of reading.
