How to Read Literature Like a ProfessorHarper Collins, 2009. okt. 13. - 336 oldal What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun. |
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... poetry, as well as creative writing and composition. He is the author of several books on twentieth-century British and Irish fiction and poetry. He lives in East Lansing, Michigan. How to Read Literature Like a Professor m How to.
... century: Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 (1965). Beginning readers can find the novel mystifying, irritating, and highly peculiar. True enough, there is a good bit of cartoonish strangeness in the novel, which can mask the basic quest ...
... century) and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen (1596), two of the great quest narratives from early English literature, also have what modern readers must consider cartoonish elements. It's really only a matter of whether we're talking ...
... centuries-old postal conspiracy. 5) The real reason to go: did I mention that her name is Oedipa? Oedipa Maas, actually. She's named for the great tragic character from Sophocles' drama Oedipus the King (ca. 425 B.C.), whose real ...
... century, where the law of the jungle and survival of the fittest reign. Of course, the twentieth century also provided plenty of instances of social vampirism and cannibalism. Franz Kafka, a latter-day Poe, uses the dynamic in stories ...
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When in Doubt | 37 |
Or the Bible | 47 |
Hanseldee and Greteldum | 57 |
Its Greek to Me | 64 |
Its More Than Just Rain | 74 |
If She Comes Up Its Baptism | 152 |
Geography Matters | 163 |
So Does Season | 175 |
One Story | 185 |
Marked for Greatness | 193 |
Hes Blind for a | 201 |
Its Never Just Heart Disease | 207 |
And Rarely Just Illness | 213 |
Does He Mean That? | 82 |
Is That a Symbol? | 97 |
Its All Political | 108 |
Yes Shes a Christ Figure Too | 117 |
Flights of Fancy | 125 |
Its All About Sex | 135 |
Except Sex | 143 |
Dont Read with Your Eyes | 226 |
Is He Serious? | 235 |
A Test Case | 245 |
Envoi | 278 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
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