How to Read Literature Like a Professor

About How to Read Literature Like a Professor “A smart, accessible, and thoroughly satisfying examination of what it means to re ...

Praise for How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster “I know of no other book that so vividly conveys what it’ ...

The Perfect Resource for Reading Groups With its informal style and easy approach to literature, How to Read Literature Like a ...

Contents Introduction – How’d He Do That? 1 – Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) 2 – Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Com ...

Copyright Notice The excerpts from James Joyce’s “The Dead” are reprinted from Dubliners, The Modern Library, 1969. Katherine Ma ...

Foster, Thomas C. How to read literature like a professor : a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines / Thoma ...

follow Kip, and because the ’Cuda is bright green and goes approximately the speed of light, and also because Tony has never had ...

and the Green Knight (late fourteenth century) and Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queen (1596), two of the great quest narratives from ...

So there, in fifty words or more, is why professors of literature typically think The Crying of Lot 49 is a terrific little book ...

them killed. In most areas, however, such behavior is considered very bad form. Generally, eating with another is a way of sayin ...

stranger—eating as a fundamental element of life—that there is a bond between them. p. 11 What about the dope they smoke afterwa ...

grated nutmeg, a small bowl full of chocolates and sweets wrapped in gold and silver papers and a glass vase in which stood some ...

unmarried (which in the social vision of nineteenth-century England meant virginal) women. And when he gets them, he grows young ...

deal more accessible. His novella The Turn of the Screw (1898) is about a governess who tries, without success, to protect the t ...

the ordinary and the monstrous. Edgar Allan Poe. J. S. Le Fanu, whose ghost stories made him the Stephen King of his day. Thomas ...

After I tell the students that first time that it’s a sonnet, half of them groan in belated recognition (often they know but thi ...

Each felt one hungering heart leap up and sink, Each tasted bitterness which both must drink, There on the brink of life’s divid ...

important statement of anything—we can say that “An Echo from Willow-Wood” is an excellent specimen of its chosen form. Rossetti ...

mental feats of memory on the one hand and invention on the other. The actual war, because itp. 30really happened, he can’t do m ...

Tolkien rather than Carroll, and while the surface features would have been different, the principle would have remained the sam ...