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How To Read Literature Like A Professor Chapter 18

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"Education is mostly most institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When nosotros're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Ever" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come up along and write something to prove that it'southward not."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"We - equally readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share knowledge of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the same swirl of story. We have only to reach out into the air and pluck a piece of it."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Reading...is a full-contact sport; nosotros crash upwardly against the moving ridge of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, in that location is not possibility of attaining grace. In the language of Christianity, a beliver cannot be saved unless the choice to follow Christ is freely made, unless the option not to follow him genuinely exists. Compelled belief is no belief at all."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Every reader's feel of every work is unique, largely because each person will emphasize various elements to differing degrees, and those differences will cause certain features of the text to become more or less pronounced. We bring an individual history to our reading, a mix of previous readings, to be sure, but likewise a history that includes, but is not limited to, educational attainment, gender, race, course, faith, social involvement, and philosophical inclination. These factors will inevitably influence what we understand in our reading, and nowhere is this individuality clearer than in the thing of symbolism."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
"Every language has a grammer, a set up of rules that govern usage and significant, and literary language is no dissimilar. It'southward all more than or less capricious of course, simply like language itself."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"In gild to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Everywhere you wait, the ground is already camped on. So y'all sigh and pitch your tent where you tin can, knowing someone else has been there earlier."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"What happens if the writer is skillful is commonly not that the work seems derivative or footling but just the opposite: the work really acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets upward with prior texts, weight from the accumulated apply of sure basic patterns and tendencies. Moreover, works are actually more comforting because nosotros can recognize elements of them from our prior reading. I suspect that a wholly original work, one that owed null to previous writing, would and so lack familiarity every bit to be quite unnerving to readers."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Similar a Professor
"We have to bring our imaginations to bear on a story if we are to see all it'due south possibilitiess; otherwise information technology'southward just about somebody who did something. Whatever we take away from stories in the way of significance, symbolism, theme, significant, pretty much annihilation except character and plot, we discover because our imagination engages with that of the writer. Pretty amazing when you consider that the author may have been dead for thousands of years, yet nosotros tin still take this exchange, this dialogue, with her."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"If to go to the stop line the hero must walk over a bounding main of bodies, then so be information technology. He tin die at said line, only he's got to become there."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"What we mean when speaking of "myth" in general is story, the ability of story to explain ourselves to ourselves in means that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry—all very highly useful and informative in their own correct—tin can't."
Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor

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