How to Read Literature like a Professor Notes

Conventions In st geniuss Types of characters Plot rhythms Chapter structures Point-of-view limitations Chapter 1 Every blow up is a Quest (Except When Its Not) The reason for a quest Is always self-knowledge The say reason is never the actual reason to go on a quest, the real reason for a quest is self-knowledge. Most of the time, when a makeup of literature involves someone going somewhere and doing something, it is a quest. Chapter 2 beautiful to Eat You Acts of Communion Whenever concourse eat or drink together, its communionSharing a meal Is a very personal thing (you wouldnt grow a meal someone you hated). Food Is a universal thing that we as humans share. In Cathedral a man who hated people with disabilities bonded to a man who was blind over food. Chapter 5 Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before? There is no such thing as a wholly original work of literature All authors pull earnestness from previous works. In Going After Cacciatore, Tim OBrien pulls inspiration from Lewis Carols Alice In Wonderland when he has his character saying that they have to fall up to get come to the fore, onto Vetting tunnel.Authors in any case use historical Inspiration. OBrien models the main characters lover interest after Showcases (a brown-skinned raw women guiding a group of mostly white men, speaking a language they dont know, knowing where to go, where to find food, and taking them west) There is only one story. Chapter 9 Its All classic to Me Myth Is the body of story that matters Greek and Roman myths are so Ingrained Into our consciousness that we dont realize how observable they are. Like in William Carols Williams painting Landscape with Fall of Cirrus.Without the legs sticking out of the water in that making the painting that much less popular. Chapter 12 Is That A Symbol If its not symbolism, its allegory Symbols are personal things We indispensability It to mean one thing, but Is Impossible because then the novel ceases to be what it is, a network of mea nings and signification. symboliseing doesnt lie of the surface of the novel. Authors may have the same object mean a variety of things. Pay fear to how you feel about the text. It probably means something. Interlude Does He Mean That?