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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 employ in dealing with a piece of writing" (xiii).
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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: • Form • Structure • Rhythm • Rhyme
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Conventions can cantankerous genre lines Example – leap can evoke our imaginations to call up of youth, promise, new life, rebirth, fertility, renewal…
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Retention. Symbol. Design."…the three items that…separate the professional person reader from the residue of the crowd" (xv).
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"Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise" (xv).The professional reader "has a predisposition to run across things as existing in themselves while simultaneously too representing something else" (16).
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"Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, just he tin can also symbolize(a) the hostility of the universe to human beingness ( a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in homo nature that only some college aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the championship hero) tin can conquer" (sixteen).
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What does Sigmund Freud have 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 understanding his cases that we try to bring to interpreting novels, poems, and plays." "[Freud's] identification of the Oedipal complex is one of the great moments in the history of homo idea, with as much literary equally psychoanalytical significance" (xvii).
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Sigmund Freud / Oedipus Complex The Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which centre around the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex. Co-ordinate to classical theory, the complex appears during the so-called "oedipal stage" of libidinal and ego development; i.e. betwixt the ages of three and five, though oedipal manifestations may be detected earlier. The complex is named after the Greek mythical graphic symbol 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 us only considering it might have been ours – considering the oracle laid the aforementioned curse upon us before our birth equally upon him. Information technology is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our offset hatred and our commencement murderous wish confronting our male parent. Our dreams convince us that this is then."
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It's Not)" The Quest • A quester • A place to go • A stated reason to go in that location • Challenges and trials en route • A real reason to go at that place
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology's Not)" "The real reason for the quest never involves the stated reason." "[The questers] go considering of the stated task, mistakenly believing that information technology is their real mission." "The real reason for a quest is always self-noesis."
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology'south Non)" Quest Tale Examples • Huck Finn • The Lord of the Rings • Due north by Northwest • Star Wars
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Chapter Two"Nice to Eat with Yous: Acts of Communion" com·mu·nionPronunciation: \kə-`myü-nyən\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin communion-, communio mutual participation, from communis Date: 14th century 1: an deed or instance of sharing 2 (a)capitalized : a Christian sacrament in which consecrated bread and vino are consumed equally memorials of Christ's decease or as symbols for the realization of a spiritual wedlock 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 trunk of Christians having a common organized religion and subject <the Anglican communion>
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Chapter 2"Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion" "Whenever people eat or potable together, it's communion." (viii) "Mostly, eating with another is a style of proverb, 'I'thousand with you, I like yous, we form a community 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 and so difficult, and so inherently uninteresting, that in that location actually needs to be some compelling reason to include one in the story. And that reason has to practise with how characters are getting along. Or not getting forth." (eight)
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Consignment #one: Locate an eating scene in either Wuthering Heights or A Tale of Two Citiesand explain the author'southward purpose(s).Include folio #, brief summary of scene (which characters are involved, what they are eating/drinking) and WHY that scene is important.
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