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A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

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An edition of How to Read Novels Like a Professor (2008)

How to Read Novels Like a Professor

A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

First Edition

by Thomas C. Foster

★★★ 3.00 ·
2 Ratings
6 Want to read
0 Currently reading
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Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed...and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history.Thomas C. Foster — the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor — now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors' choices about structure — point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity — create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.

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July 1, 2008

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Harper Paperbacks

Language

English

Pages

312

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1 How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form 2009, HarperCollins Publishers in English 0061977705 9780061977701	zzzz Not in Library Libraries near you: WorldCat
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Preface. Novel possibilities, or All Animals Aren't Pigs? Page xiii

Introduction. Once Upon a Time: A short, Chaotic, and Entirely Idiosyncratic History of the Novel Page 1

1. Pickup Lines and Open(ing) Seductions, or Why Novels Have First Pages Page 21

2. You Can't Breathe Where the Air Is Clear Page 37

3. Who's in Charge Here Page 45

4. Never Trust a Narrator with a Speaking Part Page 56

5. A Still, Small Voice (or a Great, Galumphing One) Page 67

6. Men (and Women) Made out of Words, or My Pip Ain't Like Your Pip Page 80

7. When Very bad people Happen to Good Novels Page 89

8. Wrinkles in Time, or Chapters Just Might Matter Page 99

9. Everywhere Is Just One Place Page 109

10. Clarissa's Flowers Page 117

11. Met-him=pike-hoses Page 131

12. Life Sentences Page 145

13. Drowning in the Stream of Consciousness Page 160

14. The Light on Daisy's Dock Page 172

15. Fiction About Fiction Page 182

16. Source Codes and Recycle Bins Page 197

Interlude. Read with Your Ears Page 213

17. Improbabilities: Foundlings and Magi, Colonels and Boy Wizards Page 227

18. What's the Big Idea - or Even the Small One? Page 239

19. Who Broke My Novel? Page 250

20. Untidy Endings Page 264

21. History in the Novel/The Novel in History Page 279

22. Conspiracy Theory Page 291

Conclusion. The Never-Ending Journey Page 303

Reading list. Criticism of the Novel Page 309

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Dewey Decimal Class: 809.3 22
Library of Congress: PN3365 .F67 2008

Contributors

Cover artist: Mary Schuck

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Format: Paperback
Pagination: xviii, 312 p
Number of pages: 312
Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches

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Open Library: OL9952432M
ISBN 10: 0061340405
ISBN 13: 9780061340406
LCCN: 2008001729
OCLC/WorldCat: 190860169
Google: 1i_AIAAACAAJ
oclc: 190860169
Library Thing: 5387420
Goodreads: 2261882

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How to Read Novels Like a Professor

A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

by Thomas C. Foster