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Chapter 16. It’s All About Sex…

Chapter 16. It’s All About Sex… . How to Read Literature Like a Professor By: Thomas C. Foster. Created by: Raven-Simone Shaw. Sex is describe through…. Symbols Imagery . Female’s Sex Symbols. Chalices Grails Bowls Rolling landscapes Fertility Tunnels

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Chapter 16. It’s All About Sex…

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  1. Chapter 16. It’s All About Sex… How to Read Literature Like a Professor By: Thomas C. Foster Created by: Raven-Simone Shaw

  2. Sex is describe through… • Symbols • Imagery

  3. Female’s Sex Symbols • Chalices • Grails • Bowls • Rolling landscapes • Fertility • Tunnels • Vessels waiting to be filled

  4. Male’s Sex Symbols • Tall buildings • Blade

  5. Other Sex Symbols • Stairs (falling down the stairs) • Fires • Seashores • Curtains • Waves on the beach • Fireworks • Campfires

  6. Literature - Sex • The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Freud • Jessie L. Weston • Sir James Frazer • Carl Jung • The Maltese Falcon (1941) by Dashiell Hammett • Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) by Ann-Mareike Franz • North (1959) by Northwest

  7. Imagery within Sex • Lances. Swords, guns, and keys. • Phallic symbols – an object that represents male generative powers.

  8. Literature – Imagery • D.H Literature • The Rocking-Horse Winner (1932) • Lady Chatterley’s Love (1928) and Women In Love. • Used wrestling as a sex scene. • Symbolically fulfills the idea of masturbation.

  9. Reasons for Disguised Sex • Writers could not make the real image of sex. • The sex codes worked at so many levels. • “More intense than literal depictions” (141).

  10. Work Cited Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. Print.

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