How to Read Novels Like a Professor
How to Read Novels Like a Professor is a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels, making reading more enriching and satisfying. It provides students with tried-and-true techniques to use in analyzing some of the most important works in literary history. This book shows readers how to consider and a novel's historical fine points as well as major themes, literary models, and narrative devices like irony, plot, and symbol.
Praise for How to Read Novels Like a Professor
"By bringing his eminent scholarship to bear in doses measured for the common reader or occasional student, Professor Foster has done us all a generous turn. The trained eye, the tuned ear, the intellect possessed of simple ciphers brings the literary arts alive."
— Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking