• 故事后的秘密
  • The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
  • 作者:Michael Bérubé
  • 出版社代理人:NYU Press(美国)
  • 出版时间:2016年2月
  • 页数:240页
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  • 版权联系人:cecily@peonyliteraryagecny.com
内容介绍
叙事法教我们如何思考、如何做、如何计划、如何记忆和如何想像。我们开始学会走路和说话的时候,也开始听别人故事和学会自己说故事。有人说理解叙事是人类与生具来的天份,但也有人说是写作的出现重组了我们的大脑。           
 
作者Michael Bérubé《故事后的秘密》中用非常具有说服力的论点,讲述一个截然不同的概念,他说了解智能障碍,会改变我们对叙事法的了解。他不将专注力放在所谓的障碍上,令人惊讶的是,他让读者了解到智能障碍的概念提供了几乎包山包海的叙事策略,透过阅读经验里对时间的疑问、自我反思及动机,带给我们一种崭新、不同于以往的思考方式。
 
Bérubé 将他自己的故事和福克纳(William Faulkner)的《声音与愤怒》、马克·海登(Mark Haddon)的《深夜小狗神秘习题》、汤婷婷的 (Maxine Hong Kingston) 的《女战士》(The Woman Warrior)与菲利普‧狄克(Philip K. Dick)的《火星时间滑落》(Martian Time- Slip)交织在一起,将他的理论付诸实践,延伸了文学研究与文学作品中障碍研究的范畴。
 
喜欢哈立波特的小说迷和研究文学的学者,绝对会喜欢有智慧又有说服力的Michael Bérubé。对所有喜欢阅读的人来说,《故事后的秘密》将彻底改变我们思考及阅读的方式。
 
好评
"Michael Berube's The Secret Life of Stories is that rare book that manages to speak to its specialized academic audience while imagining and addressing a much broader readership.  Berube...has crafted an accessible, if still rigorous, study of the way fiction grapples with intellectual disability."-Slant Magazine
 
"Arguing that the idea of intellectual disability has been for writers and can be for critics an extremely productive nexus for thinking through big questions about narrative and irony,  The Secret Life of Stories pushes us further, brilliantly defending the arts and humanities. Bérubé’s mind for literary analysis is a powerhouse. This little book is a rare treat.”-Susan M. Schweik,author of The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public
 
"[A] concise, fresh, and deeply informed look at how we read." -STARRED Kirkus Reviews
 
"Michael Bérubé challenges readers to rethink their understanding of both intellectual disability and narrative storytelling...argu[ing] for a new understanding of disability in literature—one that applies not to characters, but to narrative itself. [...] The Secret Life of Stories acts as a kind of intervention, demonstrating to both disability studies scholars and literary theorists more broadly the potential for reading social identities through a narrative lens, and it does so, more often than not, using children’s texts as the crux of the argument...Bérubé is one of the first scholars to think through intellectual disability in a full length academic text. That he does so using children’s literature as his foundation makes this work a first for both fields."-The Lion and the Unicorn
 
“Michael Bérubé’s son tells us that ‘in a story things have to happen for a reason’—as fine a definition of narrative as Aristotle’s. That is also true of great literary criticism: it helps us understand why things happen, in literature and in life. This generous, expansive, brilliant book has deep insights for all of us. The Secret Life of Stories is precious—for all the right reasons.”-Cathy N. Davidson,Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Scien

"[Berube has] picked out select books that I can imagine him either teaching or just reading for pleasure, identifying themes to explicate, and taking as much delight in the retelling of key episodes as he does in the deeper analysis."-Los Angeles Review of Books

"An enlightening examination."-Library Journal

“Michael Bérubé has long advocated for the importance of the humanities in higher education and in public culture more generally. In The Secret Life of Stories, he puts that advocacy into practice, demonstrating to readers the multifaceted pleasures of reading. With dazzling ideas about narrative and disability, interwoven with personal stories and delightful readings of a variety of texts, The Secret Life of Stories is a joy to read. An extraordinary book.”-Robert McRuer,author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

 
关于作者
Michael Bérubé  是宾州大学人文及艺术所的文学教授和所长。2012年时,他担任Modern Language Association的主席。他出过很多书,作品包括: Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (NYU Press, 1997)、The Left at War  (NYU Press, 2009)、 What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “ Bias” in Higher Education (2006) 与  Life as We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996)。