Summary and Analysis of How to Read Literature Like a Professor: Based on the Book by Thomas C. Foster
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Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor is a series of short essays that show readers how to “read between the lines” and make great books come alive.
Based on Professor Foster’s years as a teacher of literature, Foster explains how authors use the English language to accomplish their goals and how we can recognize literary ideas in a wide range of works. The tools he offers can be applied to any book—from the classics to the latest blockbusters.
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Context
First published in 2003 and rereleased in 2014, Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the culmination of a literature professor’s life and work in the art of storytelling that has sold more than one million copies. Over the course of decades of experience with his students at the University of Michigan–Flint, Foster devised a method of explicating great literature in approachable ways that can also be useful to casual or avid readers. How to Read Literature Like a Professor became the first of a series that includes How to Read Novels Like a Professor (2008) and How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids (2013).
In a world overflowing with information, tweets, blog posts, and countless online articles, the joy—or even the point—of slowly reading a good book is often lost. In Foster’s original work—published the year before Facebook was launched, but many years after the dawn of the cell phone—readers gain insight into the same tools and methods that great thinkers, writers, and readers have always found essential when it comes to understanding works of fiction. A single book can open innumerable doors to vistas in history, art, psychology, religion, science, human nature, and so much more.
Books are the original hypertext, with links to other ideas and other books all over the world. In the same way a beginner in golf, or a medical student, needs guidance from professionals before becoming an expert, readers can benefit from assistance, too. Foster’s book was written to provide interested lay readers with a kind of portable education—an easy way for the average person to, over time, greatly improve his or her comprehension and enjoyment of the best books the language has to offer, as well as excellent ways to examine the latest summer blockbuster.
Overview
Are there things a reader absolutely needs to know before entering the world of a novel? According to Foster, the answer is both yes and no. No, because a great book is constructed as a stand-alone work of art, a discrete and self-contained piece