A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide-a lively and
entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics including symbols themes and
contexts that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and
enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories there are often deeper
literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us
to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes-and the literary
codes-of the ultimate professional reader the college professor. What does it mean when a
literary hero is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When
he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models narrative
devices and form Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature-a world
where a road leads to a quest a shared meal may signify a communion and rain whether
cleansing or destructive is never just a shower-and shows us how to make our reading
experience more enriching satisfying and fun. This revised edition includes new chapters a
new preface and epilogue and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed
over the past decade.
