How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
 | Harper Paperbacks, 2003, Paperback Customer Rating: 62 reviews Recommend |
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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.
Title: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Sales Rank: 2404 in Books
Author: Thomas C. Foster
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 1 edition, 2003-03-01, Paperback, 336 pages, ISBN: 006000942X
Package Dimensions: 7.87 x 5.28 x 0.79 inches, 0.57 pounds
- Elementary way to read professionally
- This is indeed a fantastic aid when analyzing literature. In AP literature, one must definitely know how to analyze different works. This work gives simple ways to explain difficult concepts or difficult to find ideas. Sometimes the book does over-state key ideas, this reiteration could be quite bothersome when reading the entire book at once. i would advise that you only… More reviews
- Well descript and open-minded book
- While only just beginning to read this novel I have found some very intriguing remarks just in the first section where the author refers to a teacher teaching a class by reading a passage from another book where a home owner is selling the house and another man is attempting to pay the man and his family to leave the community. The description… More reviews
- How to Read Literature like a Professor is a popular introduction to critical reading skills for students, teachers and readers
- Dr. Thomas C. Foster is a Michigan Professor of English who has written this bestseller and its sequel "How To Read Novels Like a Professor". This is the initial volume published in paperback by Quill in 2003.
Foster is well versed in all aspects of the literary field from ancient works to fiction by living writers. In his lively little book he introduces us to such terms as the… More reviews
- It may ruin literature for you unless you can both appreciate your opinion and the authors.
- Most people I encounter, after reading this book, complain that it is pushing a single opinion about the meaning of a story. That's not the case. While it does convey the language that people use to communicate, since that is what literature is supposed to do, it still does recognize that everyone will hear a story differently, due to the intertextuality it even mentions. This… More reviews
- makes you look at the novels you read in a different way
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor explains some of the devices used by authors to express themselves. The author covers many aspects of the novel such as the quest and the frequent appearance of references to previous authors such as Shakespeare. The author's approach is flexible, he explains that, for example the weather, can have many uses as a device rather than just… More reviews
