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Foster Thomas C. - How To Read Literature Like A Professor A Lively And Entertaining Guide To Reading Between The Lines - Hardcover
Foster Thomas C. - How To Read Literature Like A Professor A Lively And Entertaining Guide To Reading Between The Lines - Hardcover
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Binding: Hardcover
Description: The classic guide now available in a hardcover edition a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics including symbols themes and contexts that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. 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 codesof 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.
Title: How To Read Literature Like A Professor A Lively And Entertaining Guide To Reading Between The Lines
Author(s): Foster Thomas C.
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062696854
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/16/2017
Description: The classic guide now available in a hardcover edition a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics including symbols themes and contexts that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. 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 codesof 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.
Title: How To Read Literature Like A Professor A Lively And Entertaining Guide To Reading Between The Lines
Author(s): Foster Thomas C.
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062696854
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/16/2017