| How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form Contributor(s): Foster, Thomas C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061340405 ISBN-13: 9780061340406 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's "Don Quixote" to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history. Thomas C. Foster--the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, "How to Read Literature Like a Professor"--now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors' choices about structure--point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity--create meaning and a special literary language, "How to Read Novels Like a Professor" shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Language Arts & Disciplines | Readers |
| Dewey: 809.3 |
| LCCN: 2008001729 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Undertaking |
Contributor Bio(s): Foster, Thomas C.: - Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Reading the Silver Screen, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as creative writing and freelance writing. He is also the author of several books on 20th-century British and Irish literature and poetry. |