"I know of no other book that so vividly conveys what it's like to study with a great literature professor."
--James Shapiro, Columbia University, author of Shakespeare and the Jews It is a common situation that is all too familiar to literature professors everywhere. When teaching a great work of literature, be it Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1741), or Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), there is inevitably a moment in the classroom discussion of the book when the students confess to their professor that they do not "get it," they simply do not understand the inherent symbolism represented in the book of which the professor speaks of with such clarity and ease. As Thomas C. Foster states in his enlightening new book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, to the eager but frustrated literature student "it may seem at times as if the professor is either inventing interpretations out of thin air or else performing parlor tricks, a sort of analytical sleight of hand." Of course, literature professors have an obvious unfair advantage over their students: they are experienced readers who over the years have acquired an integral skill that Foster labels the "language of reading," something their students are only just beginning to understand. The "language of reading" is the grammar of literature, a set of conventions and patterns, codes and rules that are employed when dealing with a piece of writing. Quite simply, what does it mean when a fictional character embarks on a journey? Or gets caught in a torrential rainstorm? Or sits down to share a hearty meal with family and friends? In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster presents a lively and entertaining guide for your students to learn the subtle clues that form the "language of reading," thereby transforming their reading experience to a new level that is ultimately more enriching, satisfying, and fun. Written in an informal, friendly style that encourages a freewheeling approach to literature, How to Read Literature Like a Professor focuses on the key literary basics that are the foundation of all great literature: major themes and motifs (seasons, quests, food, politics, geography, weather, vampires, violence, illness, and many more); literary models (Shakespeare's plays, Greek mythology, fairy tales, the Bible); and narrative devices (form, irony, plot, and symbol, among others). Throughout his book, Thomas C. Foster draws upon an eclectic mix of clever examples from all genres: novels, short stories, plays, poems, movies, television, rock and roll song lyrics, and even cartoon favorites such as the noted "literary heroes" Rocky and Bullwinkle and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. To test the growth of the analytical skills of your students, Foster includes as a case study "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield, offering his own incisive narrative comments plus examples of his literature students' impressions of the classic 1922 short story. In addition, Foster also includes a comprehensive list of novels, poems, and plays that your students may find enjoyable and challenging, plus offers suggestions for secondary sources on reading, interpretation, and criticism. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, your students will come to clearly understand through Thomas C. Foster's witty and instructive style that a journey symbolizes a fictional character's heroic quest for self-knowledge, a torrential rainstorm can be cleansing or destructive to the character but it never just symbolizes that it is raining outside, and a meal may symbolize the religious ritual of the holy communion. How to Read Literature Like a Professor will inspire your literature students to unlock the deeper hidden truths of the literary texts whose many shades of symbolic meaning may initially be escaping their grasp. From page 47 in How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Автор: Lively Penelope Название: Ghost of Thomas Kempe ISBN: 1405288744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405288743 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7030.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike.
Автор: Penelope Lively Название: House in Norham Gardens ISBN: 0141361905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141361901 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: No 40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. In the junk room, Clare discovers the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins.
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: A House Unlocked ISBN: 014100164X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141001647 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The only child of divorced parents, the author was often sent to stay at her grandparents` country house Golsoncott. Years later, she began to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before. In this title, she delves into the domestic past of her former home, and the contrasts between life today and the way they lived then.
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: Perfect Happiness ISBN: 0140069968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140069969 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. This title illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief.
Автор: Penelope Lively Название: Moon Tiger ISBN: 0241973686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241973684 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a `history of the world... and in the process, my own`. But Claudia`s life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view.
Автор: Penelope Lively Название: Consequences ISBN: 0141021284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141021287 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna`s dreams - away.
Автор: Penelope Lively Название: The Photograph ISBN: 0141011947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141011943 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Glyn`s work as a historian should have inured him to unexpected findings and reversals, but he is ill-prepared for this radical shift in perception.
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: Making It Up ISBN: 0143037846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143037842 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 8580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Look out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.
Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" What if Lively hadn't escaped from Egypt, her birthplace, at the outbreak of World War II? What would her life have been like if she'd married someone else? From a hillside in Italy to an archaeological dig, the author explores the stories that could have been hers, fashioning a sublime dance between reality and imagination that confirms her reputation as a singular talent.
Автор: Penelope Lively Название: Moon Tiger ISBN: 0141044845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044842 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a `history of the world ...and in the process, my own`. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond.
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: The Road to Lichfield (Penguin Essentials) ISBN: 0241981409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241981405 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus.
Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, and a future never fully anticipated. 'A searing study of the peculiar state of being in love . .
. there are few contemporary novelists to match her on this subject' Sunday Telegraph
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Whispering Knights ISBN: 0194791947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194791946 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 16860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Word count 17,100
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