Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor

"There's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature"
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RebeccaMarrie/2009/02/yesterdays_happenings_are_toda.html

"See, he suggests you don't need the story because you have already internalized it so completely. That's one thing writers can do with readerly knowledge of source texts, in this case fairy tales. They can mess around with stories and turn them upside down."
~page 60
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/02/wicked_tales.html

"It's never just rain." pg 75
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JoshuaWilks/2009/02/im_no_meteorologist.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CarlosPeredo/2009/02/oxymoron_who_cares.html

Different community, different story
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelsieBitner/2009/02/not_everyone_lives_in_the_same.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NikitaMcClellan/2009/02/not_so_creative_are_we.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NikitaMcClellan/2009/02/oh_mrs_myrtle_why_so_weary.html

"Carter employs not only materials from earlier texts but also her knowledge of our responses to them in order to double-cross us, to set us up for a certain kind of thinking so that she can play a larger trick in the narrative."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AliciaCampbell/2009/02/sealed_with_a_twist.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NathanHart/2009/02/is_it_raining.html

"Who ya gonna call?...Ghostbusters!"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RebeccaMarrie/2009/02/back_to_the_basics.html

"Carter employs not only materials from earlier texts but also her knowledge of our responses to them in order to double-cross us, to set us up for a certain kind of thinking so that she can play larger trick in the narrative."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MatthewHenderson/2009/02/the_rules_that_arent_rules.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SaraBenaquista/2009/02/shakespeares_an_authority_figu.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachaelSarver/2009/02/icaruss_problems.html

"What a literature professor does.... he tells you when you get near mushrooms. Once you know that, though (and you generally are near them), you can hunt for mushrooms on your own." [Foster, 36]

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MarieVanMaanen/2009/02/one_story_to_rule_them_all_fos.html

"No writer in the West can employ a rainbow without being aware of its signifying aspect, its biblical function"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AjaHannah/2009/02/lets_talk_about_the_weather.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndrewAdams/2009/02/greek.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianneBanda/2009/02/setting_anyone.html

"For now, though, one does well to remember, as one starts reading a poem or story, to check the weather."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/02/rain_rain_rain.html

"When I was a kid, I used to go mushroom hunting with my father."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/02/mushrooms_numbers_and_symbolic.html

"Still there was something happening there--a kind of resonance, a sense that there's something meaningful beyond the simple meaning of the words."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/02/hmmmuh-huhno.html

I posted this on another page of this website early Friday morning.

"[T]here's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/02/originalitystatusdeceased.html

This one was also posted on another page of the website.

"We saw the three or four automobiles and the crowd when we were still some distance away. 'Wreck!' sid Tom. 'That's good. Wilson'll have a little business at last.'"
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/02/automobiles_and_people_both_ca.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RosalindBlair/2009/02/biblical_inspiration.html
“The devil, as the old saying goes, can quote scripture.”
- Foster p. 48

"There is only one story," (Foster 32).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/02/there-cant-be-j.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=30485&blog_id=505

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JustinIellimo/2009/02/so_thats_where_i_know_you_from.html

"...we want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity, too."