How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Large Print, Revised Edition)

Thomas C. Foster's classic guide - a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts - shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps readers discover the deeper meanings of novels, poems, and plays by looking at literature with the eyes - and literary codes - of the ultimate professional reader: the college professor. This revised and updated edition contains new chapters, new preface and epilogue, and updated teaching points developed over the last decade.

What does it mean when a literary hero travels along a dusty road? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature - a world where a road leads to a quest 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.