In this chapter, Betty Friedan urges a reversal of the notion that femininity must be protected at all costs, and advocates for turning away from the immaturity of femininity in order to become fully human. To depict this notion, Friedan makes use of several rhetorical devices such as parallelism, when she talks about how she got ‘Married, had children, lived according to the feminine mystique as a suburban housewife,’一yet, she could find no purpose in her life, and the idea of salvation, that she thought of achieving through maternity and domestic life further imprisoned her. Moreover, she makes use of hyperbole when she talks about how the love of her life decided to end things between them just because she had ‘won a fellowship’ as to him,
Reading may seem like an run of the mill thing where you laugh at the funny jokes, glare into the abyss when the text possess a provocative quote. To Mike Bunn the author of “How to Read Like A Writer,” has a different interpretation of what reading should be. Mike Bunn emphasizes that reading should be more than just context, he argues that you need to question the authors’ choice of words, literary devices, sentence placement, in order to be able to become better readers and writers ourselfs. He presents it to the audience in a manner that is very interactive. He begins by explaining what he means to “Read Like a Writer”(Bunn, How to Read Like A Writer), followed by questions that should be asked about the text and writing style, and techniques that should be done to become a more proficient writer.
The book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster, teaches readers how to pick up all the hints authors leave in their stories, and thus understand literature better (hence the title). Written in second person point of view, Foster explains how to spot the signs, and addresses questions he assumes most readers would ask about them. He provides well known examples and explanations to further his readers’ comprehension and does not hesitate to repeatedly clarify what he is saying to make sure they get the point. Foster believes this guide will help them better understand the novels that they read, wants them to ruminate the context and content, and hopes they consider his teachings while reading. Written by Kate Cary under
In the introduction of “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” , Thomas C. Foster focuses on the grammar of literature and the qualities of a professorial reader. He asserts that practise is crucial to learn how to read literature in a more rewarding way. In addition, he defines main elements of the context such as pattern , symbols, and conventions. The purpose of Foster appears to be informing students who is beginning to be introduced to literature. Although Foster’s style is slightly condescending, he utilizes the conventions of literature quite well, and mentions the arbitrariness of these conventions in a sensible way.
By reading “How to Read Literature like a Professor” and “The Kite Runner”, the reader is aided in his or her ability to understand the true meanings behind the text. One is able to decipher how the act of coming together to eat can mean anything from a simple meal with family, to an uncomfortable situation that leads to anger or stress in an individual character. The reader is able to understand the use of rain or other weather in a novel to transform the mood and tone of scene, or understand the cleansing or destructive qualities that weather may have on the overall plot of the story. The use of illness can be transformed, as it can lead to the reader discovering veiled means behind tuberculosis, cholera, a simple cold, or even cancers such
Explication is a method used mainly in the study of brief extracts or short poems from plays, novels, stories, and essays (Barnet & Cain, 2012). Through the text, I learned on how to be able to analyze a work and reveal my sense of the meaning of a particular work., thus developing a deeper understanding of the text and the author’s point of view. Explication calls for the attention to the meaning or implications of words, the shifts in viewpoints, the function of rhymes, as well as the development of contrasts (Barnet & Cain, 2012). The second form of criticism, as outlined by Barnet and Cain, is analysis, which is utilized in writing about works that are longer than one or two pages through separation of works into parts in order to develop an enhanced understanding of the
Book Report On How to Read Literature like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster Thomas C. Foster’s “How to Read Literature like a Professor” has established itself as an essential and pivotal text in the landscape of literature, offering readers a thorough and insightful guide to literary analysis. Through the book report, a detailed exploration of Foster’s work will be provided, looking at the complexities, strengths, and weaknesses of the text. Assessing its significance for both academic and contemporary purposes. Through an academic analysis, a detailed review of the text, an analysis of its relevance within today’s culture, and recommendations for potential readers, this report aims
In How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster writes about how to thoroughly read and analyze literature. He focuses on the many different aspects of writing that are used by authors. Despite being a relatively serious and informational subject, Foster is able to use language that is entertaining and more light hearted. He uses many jokes and puns in his book, and even many titles include artistically worded headings that grab the reader's’ attention.
Thomas Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor, is a thought provoking guide to reading literature. This book helps with understanding the “language of reading” and the importance of details. Foster opens up a new side of literature where rather than reading emotionally, you dig deeper into the grammar of the literary work to discover the true meaning. How to Read Literature Like a Professor, is beneficial when reading any kind of literary work. It explains the particular “set of conventions and patterns, codes and rules” (Foster xxv) used when dealing with literary works.
The book, How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, was written to help people of all ages better their understanding of works of literature by teaching them to relate multiple works of literature together, as well as being able to find common traits in literature ex. A meal isn’t normally just a meal. How To Read Literature Like a Professor is written in second person perspective, which means that the author is including you in the story, an example of this would be a dialogue between the author and yourself, or it says “you” a lot, ex. “You wake up and…”. After reading this novel the author, Thomas C. Foster, wants you to be a better overall reader and be able to identify certain parts in a book that are commonly found.
Carlos Alejandro In the book “How to read literature like a professor” the author talks and explains how knowledge of and familiarity can help someone that has barely started writing make it easier for them and even easier for the person to understand and read like a professor. Learning to read like a professor entails learning how to read something logically, and the author explains some good characteristics of literature that can help the reader improve in the way they read. This book identifies and talks about older texts that literature to this day uses for example Shakespeare, the Bible and Greek mythology. The author also includes things such as setting, weather, to set the mood and the feeling the characters have, as well as some
The Namesake Chapter 2 Hyperbole Analysis Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. This is the common definition of hyperbole. While hyperboles all convey the vast extent of situations and how awing they may be, a myriad of emotions can be conveyed through hyperboles.
of a text require’s imagination to come into play. User argues that the focus of literary criticism should not be the meaning of a text, but rather its effect. (Iser, 1942). The implied reader view point was necessary to deconstruct and form a personal opinion the main characters actions, and try to investigates into the secrets of those around
The Dialectic between the Written and the Spoken Word in Maddaddam Postmodern literature is interested, resides many things, in emphasizing the artificiality of any created work. For this purpose, the postmodern writers use different Tools like metafiction and dynamic stasis. The use of these also results in making the reader question the way the entire world is percieved through created works. In Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood, the narrative voice presents transcriptions of oral myths in the making. These trascriptions fall in the definition of dynamic stasis coined by Linda Hutcheon.
The inner book challenges previous notions about reading and the psychology of it. In western societies there is a large amount of weight put on reading and reading analysis, but Bayard calls those notions into question. One never opens a book with a completely blank slate. When reading people always have some sort of basis for why they are reading that piece of work. Therefore the content of the book itself is rather irrelevant.
