How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Samson Agonistes (Milton), 51 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 101 The Satanic Verses (Rushdie), 52 -53,95 ,96 ,131 ,132 ,244 Schulz, Charles, ...

and viewpoint, 232 -33 and violence, 88 ,89 ,96 See also specific work Shane (film), 190 Shaw, George Bernard, 110 She Wore a Ye ...

“Sonny’s Blues” (Baldwin), 54 ,55 ,56 ,227 -28,229 -31 Sontag, Susan, 218 Sophocles, 5 ,72 ,115 -16,195 -96,202 ,203 ,206 ,208 , ...

Taylor, Edward, 51 Tchaikovsky, Pietr, 39 Tempest (film), 38 The Tempest (Shakespeare), 38 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 188 Tess of th ...

and geography, 164 -65,166 and irony, 235 and one story, 32 ,189 and physical deformities, 200 and quests, 6 and symbolism, 103 ...

Virgil, 70 -71,275 The Virgin and the Gypsy (Lawrence), 75 Vizenor, Gerald, 65 Vonnegut, Kurt, 216 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWY W Wa ...

The Wind in the Willows (Grahame), 59 The Wings of the Dove (James), 218 A Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare), 177 Wise Children (Carte ...

soul. This pattern holds from the Elizabethan Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus through the nineteenth-century Johann Wolfgang v ...

large set of conventions: types of characters, plot rhythms, chapter structures, point-of-view limitations. Poems have a great m ...

the purely affective level of plot, drama, characters. Experience has proved to them that life and books fall into similar patte ...

How to Read Literature Like a Professor A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines THOMAS C. FOSTER Quill An I ...