How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition

<p><strong>A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide--a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics including symbols themes and contexts that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.</strong></p><p>While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. <em>How to Read Literature Like a Professor</em> helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes--and the literary codes--of the ultimate professional reader the college professor.</p><p>What does it mean when a literary hero is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower?</p><p>Ranging from major themes to literary models narrative devices and form Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature--a world where a road leads to a quest a shared meal may signify a communion and rain whether cleansing or destructive is never just a shower-and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching satisfying and fun.</p><p>This revised edition includes new chapters a new preface and epilogue and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade.</p>