How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Thomas C. Foster

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction education informative slow-paced
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What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, o...

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