How Do You Read Literature Like A Professor?
Thomas Foster opens up a new world of literature, drawing from some of the world’s greatest classics to explore what literature is, what it means to us, and how we can understand it. It’s a fun and entertaining introduction for students and book lovers alike. Foster’s light-witty style makes for easy reading. It reminds me of a gathering together of old literature friends, where we discuss books and writing.How’d He Do That? Some students think there must be some well-kept secret to understanding literature. Either that, or teachers must be making up all this stuff about theme and symbol. There couldn’t be that much to a book after all: symbols, important images, connections between this book and others. Of course, literature professors don’t make this stuff up. Professors and other readers only see symbols and archetypes because they are there. They are not hidden, not really. You just have to have eyes to see, and those literature goggles are developed through years of reading. And,
