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How to Read Literature Like a Professorby Thomas C. Foster A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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Introduction"How'd He Do That?" What is the language of reading / the grammer of literature ? "…a fix of conventions and patterns, codes and rules, that nosotros learn to employ in dealing with a piece of writing" (xiii).
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Conventions of stories and novels: • Types of characters • Plot rhythms • Affiliate structures • Signal-of-view limitations
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Conventions of poems: • Grade • Construction • Rhythm • Rhyme
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Conventions tin can cross genre lines Example – spring can evoke our imaginations to remember of youth, promise, new life, rebirth, fertility, renewal…
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Retentivity. Symbol. Blueprint."…the 3 items that…separate the professional reader from the rest of the crowd" (xv).
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"Everything is a symbol of something, information technology seems, until proven otherwise" (fifteen).The professional reader "has a predisposition to see things every bit existing in themselves while simultaneously also representing something else" (sixteen).
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"Grendel, the monster in the medieval ballsy Beowulf (8th century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can as well symbolize(a) the hostility of the universe to human being ( a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some college aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) tin conquer" (16).
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What does Sigmund Freud take in mutual with a literary scholar? "Sigmund Freud 'reads' his patients the way a literary scholar reads texts, bringing the same sort of imaginative interpretation to agreement his cases that nosotros try to bring to interpreting novels, poems, and plays." "[Freud's] identification of the Oedipal complex is one of the cracking moments in the history of human being idea, with equally much literary as psychoanalytical significance" (xvii).
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Sigmund Freud / Oedipus Circuitous The Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which centre around the want to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sexual practice. Co-ordinate to classical theory, the circuitous appears during the so-called "oedipal phase" of libidinal and ego development; i.e. between the ages of iii and five, though oedipal manifestations may be detected before. The circuitous is named later on the Greek mythical character Oedipus, who (albeit unknowingly) kills his father and marries his mother. Speaking of the mythical Oedipus, Freud put information technology in these terms: " His destiny moves united states of america merely because it might take been ours – because the oracle laid the same expletive upon us before our nascence equally upon him. It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our beginning sexual impulse towards our mother and our beginning hatred and our first murderous wish against our begetter. Our dreams convince us that this is and then."
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It'south Not)" The Quest • A quester • A place to go • A stated reason to go at that place • Challenges and trials en route • A existent reason to go there
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology's Not)" "The existent reason for the quest never involves the stated reason." "[The questers] become because of the stated task, mistakenly believing that it is their real mission." "The real reason for a quest is ever cocky-noesis."
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It'due south Not)" Quest Tale Examples • Huck Finn • The Lord of the Rings • North by Northwest • Star Wars
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Chapter 2"Nice to Swallow with You: Acts of Communion" com·mu·nionPronunciation: \kə-`myü-nyən\ Part: substantive Etymology: Middle English, from Latin communion-, communio mutual participation, from communis Appointment: 14th century ane: an act or instance of sharing 2 (a)capitalized : a Christian sacrament in which consecrated bread and wine are consumed equally memorials of Christ's death or as symbols for the realization of a spiritual spousal relationship between Christ and communicant or equally the body and blood of Christ (b): the act of receiving Communion (c)capitalized : the part of a Communion service in which the sacrament is received 3: intimate fellowship or rapport : communication 4: a torso of Christians having a mutual religion and subject area <the Anglican communion>
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Chapter Ii"Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion" "Whenever people eat or drink together, information technology'southward communion." (8) "Generally, eating with another is a manner of maxim, 'I'm with you, I like you, nosotros form a community together.' And that is a form of communion."
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Affiliate 2"Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion" "…in literature…writing a repast scene is so difficult, and and then inherently uninteresting, that there really needs to be some compelling reason to include one in the story. And that reason has to practise with how characters are getting forth. Or not getting forth." (8)
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Assignment #ane: Locate an eating scene in either Wuthering Heights or A Tale of Ii Citiesand explain the writer'southward purpose(s).Include page #, brief summary of scene (which characters are involved, what they are eating/drinking) and WHY that scene is of import.
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