Chapter 9 How To Read Literature Like A Professor
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"Teaching is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they get together. If I had to cull, I'd take learning."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"E'er" and "never" are non words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as before long as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that information technology's not."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"We - equally readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share cognition of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the aforementioned swirl of story. We have only to reach out into the air and pluck a piece of it."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― 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 skilful, an individual possesses no command over his own soul, and without that command, at that place 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 conventionalities at all."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, claret, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are fabricated out of words."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Every reader'southward experience of every work is unique, largely because each person will emphasize various elements to differing degrees, and those differences will crusade certain features of the text to become more than or less pronounced. Nosotros bring an individual history to our reading, a mix of previous readings, to be sure, but likewise a history that includes, simply is not limited to, educational attainment, gender, race, class, 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 affair of symbolism."
― How to Read Literature Similar a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Betwixt the Lines
― How to Read Literature Similar a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Betwixt the Lines
"Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and significant, and literary language is no different. It'due south all more or less arbitrary of grade, just like language itself."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"In order to remain undead, I must steal the life forcefulness of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where yous tin, knowing someone else has been there before."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"What happens if the writer is expert is usually not that the piece of work seems derivative or piffling but just the opposite: the work actually acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets up with prior texts, weight from the accumulated utilise of certain bones patterns and tendencies. Moreover, works are actually more than comforting because we can recognize elements of them from our prior reading. I suspect that a wholly original piece of work, one that owed zippo to previous writing, would so lack familiarity as to be quite unnerving to readers."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"We have to bring our imaginations to bear on a story if we are to see all it'southward possibilitiess; otherwise it's just about somebody who did something. Whatever nosotros take away from stories in the way of significance, symbolism, theme, meaning, pretty much anything except character and plot, we discover because our imagination engages with that of the author. Pretty amazing when y'all consider that the author may have been dead for thousands of years, notwithstanding nosotros can even so have this exchange, this dialogue, with her."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"If to get to the end line the hero must walk over a sea of bodies, so so exist it. He tin can die at said line, but he's got to get there."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
"What nosotros hateful when speaking of "myth" in full general is story, the ability of story to explain ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry—all very highly useful and informative in their own right—tin't."
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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