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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 linguistic communication of reading / the grammar of literature ? "…a set of conventions and patterns, codes and rules, that we learn to use in dealing with a piece of writing" (13).
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Conventions of stories and novels: • Types of characters • Plot rhythms • Chapter structures • Bespeak-of-view limitations
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Conventions of poems: • Course • Construction • Rhythm • Rhyme
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Conventions can cross genre lines Example – spring tin can evoke our imaginations to retrieve of youth, hope, new life, rebirth, fertility, renewal…
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Memory. Symbol. Blueprint."…the 3 items that…separate the professional person reader from the rest of the crowd" (xv).
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"Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise" (fifteen).The professional person reader "has a predisposition to meet things every bit existing in themselves while simultaneously also representing something else" (sixteen).
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"Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an bodily monster, but he can too symbolize(a) the hostility of the universe to human being ( a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would take felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that just some higher attribute of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) tin can conquer" (xvi).
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What does Sigmund Freud have in common 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 circuitous is one of the dandy moments in the history of human thought, with as much literary every bit 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 middle around the want to possess the parent of the contrary sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex. According to classical theory, the complex appears during the so-called "oedipal phase" of libidinal and ego development; i.e. betwixt the ages of 3 and five, though oedipal manifestations may be detected before. The complex is named afterwards the Greek mythical grapheme Oedipus, who (albeit unknowingly) kills his father and marries his mother. Speaking of the mythical Oedipus, Freud put it in these terms: " His destiny moves us merely because it might take been ours – because the oracle laid the aforementioned curse upon united states of america before our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of the states, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince us that this is then."
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Chapter 1"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology's Not)" The Quest • A quester • A place to go • A stated reason to go there • Challenges and trials en route • A existent reason to go there
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It's Not)" "The real reason for the quest never involves the stated reason." "[The questers] go because of the stated job, mistakenly believing that information technology is their real mission." "The existent reason for a quest is always cocky-knowledge."
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology'southward Not)" Quest Tale Examples • Huck Finn • The Lord of the Rings • Northward past Northwest • Star Wars
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Chapter Two"Squeamish to Consume with You: Acts of Communion" com·mu·nionPronunciation: \kə-`myü-nyən\ Function: noun Etymology: Center English, from Latin communion-, communio mutual participation, from communis Date: 14th century 1: an act or instance of sharing 2 (a)capitalized : a Christian sacrament in which consecrated bread and vino are consumed as memorials of Christ'due south death or as symbols for the realization of a spiritual union between Christ and communicant or as 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 body of Christians having a mutual faith and discipline <the Anglican communion>
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Affiliate Two"Squeamish to Swallow with You: Acts of Communion" "Whenever people eat or drink together, information technology'due south communion." (8) "Generally, eating with another is a way of maxim, 'I'm with you, I similar you, we class a customs together.' And that is a form of communion."
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Chapter Two"Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion" "…in literature…writing a meal scene is so difficult, and so inherently uninteresting, that at that place really needs to be some compelling reason to include one in the story. And that reason has to do with how characters are getting forth. Or not getting along." (8)
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Assignment #1: Locate an eating scene in either Wuthering Heights or A Tale of Two Citiesand explain the writer'south purpose(s).Include page #, brief summary of scene (which characters are involved, what they are eating/drinking) and WHY that scene is important.
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