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

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Thomas C. Foster

nonfiction education informative reflective slow-paced

314 pages | first published 2003

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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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