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1. How to Read Literature Like a Professorby Thomas C. Foster A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

2. Introduction"How'd He Do That?" What is the linguistic communication of reading / the grammer of literature ? "…a set of conventions and patterns, codes and rules, that we learn to employ in dealing with a piece of writing" (xiii).

3. Conventions of stories and novels: • Types of characters • Plot rhythms • Chapter structures • Point-of-view limitations

4. Conventions of poems: • Form • Structure • Rhythm • Rhyme

5. Conventions can cantankerous genre lines Case – jump can evoke our imaginations to recall of youth, promise, new life, rebirth, fertility, renewal…

6. Memory. Symbol. Pattern."…the three items that…split the professional reader from the residual of the crowd" (xv).

7. "Everything is a symbol of something, information technology seems, until proven otherwise" (xv).The professional reader "has a predisposition to see things as existing in themselves while simultaneously besides representing something else" (xvi).

8. "Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can besides symbolize(a) the hostility of the universe to human existence ( a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would take felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human being nature that but some higher aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) can conquer" (xvi).

9. 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 same sort of imaginative estimation to understanding his cases that we try to bring to interpreting novels, poems, and plays." "[Freud'southward] identification of the Oedipal complex is one of the swell moments in the history of human thought, with as much literary every bit psychoanalytical significance" (xvii).

10. Sigmund Freud / Oedipus Complex The Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which centre around the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex activity and eliminate the parent of the same sex. Co-ordinate to classical theory, the complex appears during the so-called "oedipal phase" of libidinal and ego evolution; i.e. between the ages of iii and five, though oedipal manifestations may be detected before. The circuitous is named later on the Greek mythical grapheme Oedipus, who (albeit unknowingly) kills his father and marries his female parent. Speaking of the mythical Oedipus, Freud put it in these terms: " His destiny moves us merely because it might take been ours – because the oracle laid the aforementioned curse upon united states of america before our birth every bit upon him. It is the fate of all of u.s., perhaps, to directly our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our outset hatred and our first murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince us that this is so."

11. 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 real reason to go there

12. Chapter One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It's Not)" "The real reason for the quest never involves the stated reason." "[The questers] go considering of the stated chore, mistakenly believing that it is their real mission." "The real reason for a quest is e'er self-knowledge."

13. Affiliate One"Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When Information technology'south Non)" Quest Tale Examples • Huck Finn • The Lord of the Rings • North by Northwest • Star Wars

14. Chapter Ii"Nice to Swallow with Y'all: Acts of Communion" com·mu·nionPronunciation: \kə-`myü-nyən\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin communion-, communio common participation, from communis Date: 14th century ane: an act or instance of sharing 2 (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 body and blood 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 common organized religion and discipline <the Anglican communion>

15. Affiliate Two"Nice to Eat with You lot: Acts of Communion" "Whenever people swallow or drink together, it'due south communion." (8) "Generally, eating with another is a way of maxim, 'I'm with yous, I like yous, nosotros form a community together.' And that is a form of communion."

16. Affiliate Two"Nice to Consume with You: Acts of Communion" "…in literature…writing a meal scene is and so difficult, and and so inherently uninteresting, that at that place really needs to exist some compelling reason to include one in the story. And that reason has to do with how characters are getting along. Or not getting along." (8)

17. Consignment #ane: Locate an eating scene in either Wuthering Heights or A Tale of Two Citiesand explain the author's purpose(s).Include folio #, brief summary of scene (which characters are involved, what they are eating/drinking) and WHY that scene is of import.

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