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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780060009427
Edition: 1
ISBN: 006000942X
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: March 01, 2003
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Editorial Review: 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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Rating: - Terrific Tool for Writers
This book is not just helpful for readers seeking to grasp common themes in literature, but it's also a boon to writings who seek to write more consciously.
I've written many of the discussed scenarios, and understood the meanings of them, but the point the author makes is that we all understand them on an instinctual level. It's when it's spelled out for you that you can contemplate and fully appreciate the story, or use it as a window to better communicate with a reader.
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Rating: - Put Down The Magnifying Glass
As a life-longer learner and literature major, I have spent years laboring over difficult, verbose, dry and authoritative texts that define and discuss literary symbolism. Reading too much deconstruction theory and word-specific analysis feels like getting so close to the words with a magnifying glass that the meaning of the words and sometimes the words themselves can no longer be deciphered. These tomes take seriousness to an exaggerated level, speaking down to the reader from great heights, perhaps ... Read More
Rating:  - great book for students
This is a lively, friendly, entertaining book that is great for students. It discusses how to read, to to really read literature. But as a practiced reader I found that it didn't teach me much, though it would be great for a freshman or sophmore.
Rating: - Good Book for Students
I wish that I'd read this book before I began college too many years ago. How to Read Literature Like a Professor summarizes in accessible style and tone many of the points that it took years to learn on my own. It would be a good gift for any junior or senior in high school who's headed for college. It will ease the transition from reading at the literal level, to learn what happens in the plot, to reading at deeper levels, to learn what the author is saying "between the lines." Inclusion of references ... Read More
Rating:  - How to Read Literature
Took a while to arrive, but was in good condition. However, did not find it useful for my use.
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