Summary Of How To Read Literature Like A Professor

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 term "creative imagination" is like thinking about things and using your imagination which has no rules and no boundaries. In using our creative imaginations, we work within the parameters set out in the text, to freely inquire about the possible meanings and related to the images, characters, and events.

Our affective response to a writing makes this process, we respond or relate to certain things of the writing and it is in trying to understand the meaning that such features hold for us, and also attempting to discover the possible meanings the writer had in mind while writing the piece, that we allow literature to connect us with creative imagination.

He uses intertextuality which refers to connections that often very often appear in literature. An intertextual literary analysis talks about something different like how a text and other texts as central to the reading and understanding of the work in question. An idea of literature is that each literary work builds upon

Dialogue between different texts allow the reader to make comparisons and see differences which shifts the focus about what is almost said in a literary piece.

I also saw the use of parody, which use of parody typically presents a character or thing doing something not so serious. The feeling in which parody is used can take on different point of views, sometimes you can think it’s amusing to ridiculous. Parody is also used to refer to cases where the writing is bad imitation of someone or something. But it’s mostly used to provide entertainment or amusement for the reader.

Foster describes how parody can be used when a literary work contains references to another. Foster cites John Fowles as an example “The author in parodies the writing of his predecessor, Henry James and the Victorian novel tradition in his work." Foster also explains Salman Rushdie's novel, "The satanic verses" in terms of parody describing how, "When Salman Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses, he caused his characters to parody to show their wickedness, among other things, certain events and persons from the Koran and the life of the