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How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines Review Chapters 3, 4 & 5. Chapter 3 “Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires”. “What a difference a Preposition makes!” (15) “The essentials of the vampire story…” (19)

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

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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 Review Chapters 3, 4 & 5

  2. Chapter 3“Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires” • “What a difference a Preposition makes!”(15) • “The essentials of the vampire story…” (19) • “an older figure representing corrupt, outworn values; • a young, preferably virginal female; • a stripping of her youth, energy, virtue; • a continuance of the life force of the old male; • the death or destruction of the young woman.” (19)

  3. Chapter 3“Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires” “You don’t need fangs and a cape to be a vampire!”(19)

  4. Chapter 3“Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires” • “Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.” (17)

  5. Chapter 4“If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet” • “The miracle of the sonnet, you see, is that it is fourteen lines long and written almost always in iambic pentameter.” (23) • Boring!?

  6. Chapter 4“If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet” Well – “…most lines are going to have ten syllables and the others will be very close to ten. And ten syllables of English are about as long as fourteen lines are high: square.” (23)

  7. Chapter 5“Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?” • “…there’s no such thing as a wholly original work of literature.” (29) • “Once you know that, you can go looking for old friends…” (29)

  8. Chapter 5“Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?” • “Here it is: there’s only one story.” (32) • “…stories grow out of other stories, poems out of other poems.” (33)

  9. in·ter·tex·tu·al (ĭn'tər-těks'chōō-əl)  adj.  Relating to or deriving meaning from the interdependent ways in which texts stand in relation to each other.in'ter·tex'tu·al'i·ty (-āl'ĭ-tē) n., in'ter·tex'tu·al·ly adv. Main Entry:  intertextuality Part of Speech:n Definition:  the whole network of relations, conventions, and expectations by which the text is defined; the relationship between texts Chapter 5“Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?”

  10. Chapter 5“Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?” • “aha! Factor” (33)

  11. Assignment • Locate a vampire or a scene that resembles an act of vampirism in either Wuthering Heights or A Tale of Two Citiesand explain the author’s purpose(s). OR • Choose a character from either of the novels and discuss his/her intertextuality with another character from another piece of literature.

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