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How to Read Literature Like a Professorby Thomas C. Foster A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Betwixt 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" (thirteen).
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Conventions of stories and novels: • Types of characters • Plot rhythms • Chapter structures • Point-of-view limitations
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Conventions of poems: • Course • Structure • Rhythm • Rhyme
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Conventions can cross genre lines Example – bound can evoke our imaginations to think of youth, promise, new life, rebirth, fertility, renewal…
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Memory. Symbol. Pattern."…the three items that…separate the professional reader from the rest of the oversupply" (xv).
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"Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise" (15).The professional reader "has a predisposition to run into things as existing in themselves while simultaneously also representing something else" (xvi).
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"Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an bodily monster, just he can also symbolize(a) the hostility of the universe to man existence ( a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some higher aspect of ourselves (equally symbolized by the championship hero) can conquer" (xvi).
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What does Sigmund Freud have in common with a literary scholar? "Sigmund Freud 'reads' his patients the way a literary scholar reads texts, bringing the aforementioned sort of imaginative interpretation to understanding his cases that we endeavor to bring to interpreting novels, poems, and plays." "[Freud's] identification of the Oedipal complex is i of the slap-up moments in the history of human idea, with every bit much literary as psychoanalytical significance" (xvii).
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Sigmund Freud / Oedipus Complex The Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a grouping of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which middle around the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex activity and eliminate the parent of the same sex. According to classical theory, the complex appears during the and then-called "oedipal phase" of libidinal and ego development; i.e. between the ages of three and v, though oedipal manifestations may be detected earlier. The complex is named later the Greek mythical character Oedipus, who (admitting unknowingly) kills his father and marries his mother. Speaking of the mythical Oedipus, Freud put it in these terms: " His destiny moves united states only because information technology might have been ours – because the oracle laid the same curse upon united states of america earlier our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of us, maybe, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our female parent and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince united states 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 existent reason to get there
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology's Non)" "The existent reason for the quest never involves the stated reason." "[The questers] go because of the stated task, mistakenly believing that it is their real mission." "The existent reason for a quest is always cocky-noesis."
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Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology'southward Not)" Quest Tale Examples • Huck Finn • The Lord of the Rings • North by Northwest • Star Wars
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Chapter Two"Nice to Swallow with Yous: Acts of Communion" com·mu·nionPronunciation: \kə-`myü-nyən\ Function: substantive Etymology: Middle English language, from Latin communion-, communio common participation, from communis Appointment: 14th century 1: an act or instance of sharing two (a)capitalized : a Christian sacrament in which consecrated bread and wine are consumed as memorials of Christ'due south death or equally symbols for the realization of a spiritual union between Christ and communicant or equally the trunk and claret 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 iv: a body of Christians having a mutual faith and discipline <the Anglican communion>
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Chapter Two"Nice to Eat with Y'all: Acts of Communion" "Whenever people eat or drinkable together, it'south communion." (8) "Generally, eating with another is a way of proverb, 'I'm with yous, I similar you, we class a community together.' And that is a form of communion."
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Affiliate 2"Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion" "…in literature…writing a repast scene is so difficult, and so inherently uninteresting, that there really needs to exist some compelling reason to include one in the story. And that reason has to do with how characters are getting forth. Or not getting along." (8)
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Assignment #1: Locate an eating scene in either Wuthering Heights or A Tale of Two Citiesand explicate the author'southward purpose(s).Include page #, brief summary of scene (which characters are involved, what they are eating/drinking) and WHY that scene is important.
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