How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

Thomas C Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Country
United States
Published
13 October 2017
Pages
368
ISBN
9780062301673

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

Thomas C Foster

While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes-and the literary codes-of the ultimate professional reader, the college professor.

What does it mean when a literary hero is traveling along a dusty road When he hands a drink to his companion When he’s drenched in a sudden rain shower

Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature-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 a shower-and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.

This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade.

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