Harper Perennial
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
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- Thomas C Foster
- Harper Perennial
- Paperback
- 9780061340406
- 7.9 X 5.2 X 0.8 inches
- 0.55 pounds
- Literary Criticism > Books & Reading
- English
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor is a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels, making reading more enriching and satisfying. In the follow up to his wildly popular How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster provides students with tried-and-true techniques to use in analyzing some of the most important works in literary history. How to Read Novels Like a Professor shows readers how to consider and a novel's historical fine points as well as major themes, literary models (the Bible, Shakespeare, Greek mythology, and fairy tales), and narrative devices like irony, plot, and symbol.
By bringing his eminent scholarship to bear in doses measured for the common reader or occasional student, Professor Foster has done us all a generous turn. The trained eye, the tuned ear, the intellect possesed of simple cyphers brings the literary arts alive.-Thomas Lynch, author of The UndertakingHow to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
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