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How to Read Novels Like a Professor : A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. Foster (2017, Trade Paperback)

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The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor --a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun 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.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061340405
ISBN-13
9780061340406
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63446882

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Author
Thomas C. Foster
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Literature, General, Readers, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz

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Pn3365.F67 2008
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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., A smart, accessible, and thoroughly satisfying examination of what it means to read a work of literature. Guess what? It isn't all that hard, not when you have a knowledgeable guide to show the way. Dante had his Virgil; for everyone else, there is Thomas Foster.
Publication Name
How to Read Novels like a Professor : a Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-001729
Dewey Decimal
809.3
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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