Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CarlosPeredo/2009/01/captain_obvious.html

Edward Cullen and the Holy Grail
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AjaHannah/2009/01/was_itoddto_anyone_else_that.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RosalindBlair/2009/01/reading_literature_like_a_prof.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlyssaSanow/2009/01/reality_check.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelsieBitner/2009/01/how_to_read_literature_like_a.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NathanHart/2009/01/communion_with_others.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SaraBenaquista/2009/01/nice_to_eat_with_you.html

My quote was:
"Okay, let's see now. Winterbourne and Daisy carry associations of winter--death, cold--and spring--life, flowers, renewal--that ultimately come into conflict...with winter's frost destroying the delicate young flower." (19)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MatthewHenderson/2009/01/spring_on_the_outside_winter_o.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AliciaCampbell/2009/01/how_to_read_lit_like_a_prof.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JoshuaWilks/2009/01/real_life_vs_literature.html

For some reason I am missing the button to be able to create an entry on my weblog. Therefore I am putting my comment directly on here:

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


“The act of taking food into our bodies is so personal that we really only want to do it with people we’re very comfortable with.” Page 8


It is not that I don’t exactly disagree with this statement, but at the same time I do. I do feel that in most situations in a book, it is going to be the case that the characters are going to be eating with people they know and only then feel comfortable with it. In certain circumstances though, I do not agree with this. In America it is unusual that someone would eat with strangers, but take the scenario to another country. If and author is writing for instance about an overpopulated country, I believe that the view would be a bit different.

"English professors, as a class, are cursed with memory."

-Introduction XV

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/01/reading_literature_while_readi.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/01/different_views.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MarieVanMaanen/2009/01/how_to_read_literature_like_a.html

"But it just looked like a trip to the store for some white bread.

True. But consider the quest. Of what does it consist? A knight, a dangerous road, a Holy Grail (whatever one of those may be), at least one dragon, one evil knight, one princess. Sound about right?"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AnnamarieHouston/2009/01/foster_how_to_read_literature.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachaelSarver/2009/01/virgins_and_vampires.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/01/how_to_read_literature_like_a.html

My write entry button is now working my work can now be viewed properly:


http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NikitaMcClellan/2009/01/how_to_read_literature_like_a.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndrewAdams/2009/01/good_pointsometimes.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianneBanda/2009/01/caption_obvious_i_think_so.html

"communion doesn't need to be holy. Or even decent"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaBitar/2009/02/how_to_read_lit_like_a_profess.html

..

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JustinIellimo/2009/01/how_to_read_literature_like_a.html

I never realized how much symbolism is behind a meal.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/02/foster-at-the-d.html

"What a difference a preposition makes! If you take the "with" out of "Nice to eat with you," it begins to mean something quite different."

"And in literature, there is another reason: writing a meal scene is so difficult, and so inherently uninteresting, that there reallly needs to be some compelling reason to include on in the story."