Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial; Revised edition (February 25, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062301675
• ISBN-13: 978-0062301673
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.8 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces

From the Back Cover A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C.Foster’s classic guide”a lively and entertaining introduction to literatureand literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts”that shows youhow to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding andenjoyable.While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there areoften deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to ReadLiterature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths bylooking at literature with the eyes”and the literary codes”of the ultimateprofessional reader: the college professor.What does it mean when a literaryhero travels along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? Whenhe’s drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literarymodels, narrative devices, and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broadoverview of literature”a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared mealmay signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is neverjust a shower”and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching,satisfying, and fun.This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface,and a new epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster hasdeveloped over the past decade. Read more About the Author Thomas C. Foster isa professor of English at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he teachescontemporary fiction, drama, and poetry as well as creative writing andcomposition. He is the author of Twenty-five Books That Shaped America andseveral books on twentieth-century British and Irish fiction and poetry. Helives in East Lansing, Michigan. Read more