Thomas C. Foster studied English at Dartmouth College and then Michigan State University. He has been a professor of literature and writing since 1975, the last twenty-one years at the University of Michigan–Flint. In that time, he's learned more about literature from his students than in all the classes he's taken over the years. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Novels Like a Professor and How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character -- and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.
In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover 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 rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.
中级部分的书目都是一些参考书,很多没有中译本,行文里不附英文原名真是超不方便啊。 于是对照英文版做了这个书单,方便查找。 列单时发现,除了顺序不同,中文版里差了一本书,还译错了一个作者 (⊙﹏⊙)b。 英文版使用的 HarperCollins 2014版,顺序书目都以英文版为准。 1...
評分高中时喜欢上文学,三年前在豆瓣上听闻了《如何阅读一本文学书》(下简称《如》)的大名,高三毕业便买来翻阅。第一次大约只看了三分之一,这部分主要是关于古今作品“互文性”的内容,当时热衷现代小说和诗歌,对西方古代神话或文学经典并没有什么兴趣,这本书便被我束之高阁...
評分As common reader, I sometimes face a dilemma: For instance,I have great fun reading a book, then I want to explore it a bit deeper; I findout the story is linked to some history events and there is symbol A or metaphor B and the psycho analysis always lead ...
評分开始觉得废话有点多,中断阅读思路。后来这种现象有所减弱。另外我一直想知道作家们是怎样写作的(如果自己写,即使有idea,但没有任何基础技巧等,总觉得缺少底气),此书终于让我有所了解。 书中条条框框、思维定势太多(例如:“没淹死,就是受洗成功”,拜托,肯定有其他可...
評分喵嗚,睡前一天一章的節奏。
评分偶然在書店看到的,發現還不錯就拿來讀瞭。看完之後最大的感受是自己認識的單詞和讀過的書太少瞭。不過有差不多一半的人名和書名還是聽說過的,因此感覺還不是太差。自己目前的水平還沒法判斷這書講得靠不靠譜,不過的確給我提供瞭很多新的思路。這書作為高考語文輔導書也許不錯?美國的確有高中把這本書作為“必讀書目”之一的。繼續努力吧
评分Having fun reading, struggling and understanding
评分邊看邊按圖索驥找書參考,終於看完。對閱讀英美文學梳理清晰新穎,有很高的指點作用,今後仍可翻閱參考。
评分作者說得很清楚,投入文學研究的學者,首先都是一群喜愛閱讀文學作品的人,因為喜愛,所以纔會想要去認真而熱情的去廣泛涉獵和細讀,充分發揮聯想和想象,解析西方文學作品或神話般的追尋或反諷的幽默,並且最重要的,為普通讀者能夠最完整地接觸到文學作品隱藏的樂趣和內涵而寫齣瞭這本書。閱讀過程中,隨處可以見到作者廣泛的閱讀量,睿智的解析,文筆優美但友好,不炫耀晦澀的術語。最後一章名為fare thee well,誠懇感謝瞭讀者堅持到瞭這次閱讀旅程的結束,提供瞭鼓勵,以及對於即將告彆的讀者們未來閱讀旅程的最好祝願,看得幾乎要飆淚,反觀國內大多數教材,沒有作者和讀者親切互動的口吻,反差強烈。小說詩歌絕不僅關乎情節或情感煽動。親切,幽默,乾貨多且實在,真誠,值得二刷的好書。
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