How to Read Novels Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Novels Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor
A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

Author: Thomas C. Foster

Narrator: Tristan Wright

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf 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.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Thomas C. Foster

Thomas C. Foster is the author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, How to Write Like a Writer, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor, and other works. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry as well as creative writing and freelance writing. He is also the author of several books on twentieth-century British and Irish literature and poetry.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on November 12, 2012

I love reading books about books. How to Read Novels Like a Professor has excited me and made me more enthusiastic to start my next novel. For those who do not have much experience in learning about what constitutes a novel - for example, I'm only a high school student - Foster's book would be a gre......more

Goodreads review by Judith on November 04, 2019

This is the second book about literature I have read by the witty and knowledgeable Dr. Foster. He smartly breaks down fiction styles, such as the traditionally organized novel, meta-fiction (which is not as new as many think), magical realism, and others. He stresses the way the story is told is as......more

Goodreads review by Judy on July 29, 2010

Thomas Foster is a professor of English at the University of Michigan, but he writes about literature in a lively conversational style. I learned much about literary terms, styles and trends. The information was explained clearly and truly has made me a smarter reader. He begins with his own versio......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on December 29, 2011

I am still on the fence about this book. Having read his prior guide, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, I was looking very forward to this work as well. Having finished, I am not exactly sure where I stand. To be honest, I was look......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on March 16, 2016

I love books. You know that about me. But what probably you don’t know is that there are some books that I don’t like, some books I actually hate. Yes, it’s true. I hate textbooks. I loathe textbooks. I hate the pompous, condescending tone of textbooks. I hate the know-it-all attitude of textbooks.......more

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