A Consciência e o Romance
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A Consciência e o Romance
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Enquanto leitor, prepare-se: a sua percepção de um romance, um escritor – e até da própria leitura – nunca mais será a mesma. Desafiadora e est... read full description

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Jul 02, 2009
David rated it: 5 of 5 stars
David Lodge debruça-se neste livro sobre a forma como a consciência humana é representada nos romances.

Para isso recorre a obras de alguns escritores: Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Amis Martin e Kingsley Amis, Henry James, John Updike, Philip Roth e Kierkegaard. Acrescenta ainda uma entrevista que concedeu a propósito do seu Romance Pensamentos Secretos.

Lodge deslinda com simplicidade e clareza as várias técnicas que cada um daqueles escritores (e ele próp More...
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Aug 09, 2010
Leah rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I was sitting at my local coffeeshop this morning, chatting with a barista who went to school for creative writing and sidelines as a blogger/journalist when he's not overcaffeinating me in exchange for tips and decent health benefits. At some point, I lamented the fact that people in his writing program don't really have to read any literature. (Note that I was a math major that just took a lot of non-math classes at some fancypants college, so I have no room to talk). He made the argument tha More...
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May 04, 2009
Terry rated it: 4 of 5 stars
This is a series of academic essays on consciousness in life, in psychology and in the novel. I have found myself re-reading paragraphs and pages to fully grasp the author's premises but generally worth the work. Not a must read for fiction writers, but I'm learning a lot that will be used in my own writing.
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Aug 12, 2011
Bev rated it: 3 of 5 stars
I found these essays to be very interesting overall. Except the one on Henry James and the movies...that one just didn't keep my attention. I like Lodge better on novels not as a movie critic (not that that was his primary focus, but that's how I kept thinking of him).
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May 13, 2009
Hollis rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Very interesting.
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Dec 16, 2009
Partha rated it: 5 of 5 stars
I felt this one was a refreshing departure from the I-know-it-all media theorists. The author is a semiotician and a novelist and his ability to travel on both sides is extremely evident.
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Jun 01, 2007
Shannon rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Some chapters interesting, others boring
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Jan 31, 2012
Charlene rated it: 4 of 5 stars
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Dec 31, 2011
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Sep 28, 2011
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