Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel pdf

罗伯特·阿尔特 是美国加州大学伯克利分校的希伯来语和比较文学教授，自 1967 年以来一直在那里任教。他于 2018 年出版了他的希伯来圣经译本。Robert Alter 获得了英语学士学位（哥伦比亚大学， 1957 年），并获得哈佛大学比较文学硕士学位（1958 年）和博士学位（1962 年）。 他的职业生涯始于 Commentary 的作家，多年来一直担任特约编辑。 他写了二十三本书，最近因翻译整本希伯来圣经而闻名。 他的演讲主题从圣经情节到卡夫卡的现代主义和希伯来文学不等。 Alter 的一项重要贡献是将字体场景引入当代学术希伯来圣经研究。

Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel pdf 罗伯特·阿尔特

In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent—a metropolis defying traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble of shifting fragments and glimpses—and writers were compelled to create new methods for conveying the experience of the city.In a series of subtle and convincing interpretations of novels by Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter reveals the ways the city entered the literary imagination. He shows how writers of diverse imaginative temperaments developed innovative techniques to represent shifts in modern consciousness. Writers sought more than a journalistic representation of city living, he argues, and to convey meaningfully the reality of the metropolis, the city had to be re-created or reimagined. His book probes the literary response to changing realities of the period and contributes significantly to our understanding of the history of the Western imagination.