How to Read Literature like a Professor Notes

Conventions In stones Types of characters Plot rhythms Chapter structures Point-of-view limitations Chapter 1 all(prenominal) Trip is a Quest (Except When Its Not) The reason for a quest Is eer self-knowledge The stated 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 piece of literature involves someone going somewhere and doing some amour, it is a quest. Chapter 2 Nice to Eat You Acts of Communion Whenever people eat or inebriation to calculateher, its communionSharing a meal Is a very personal thing (you wouldnt micturate a meal someone you scorned). 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 learn I Seen Her Before? There is no such thing as a wholly original work of literature All authors send inspiration from previous works. In Going After Cacciatore, Tim OBrien pulls inspirat ion from Lewis Carols Alice In Wonderland when he has his character saying that they have to fall up to get out, onto Vetting tunnel.Authors also use historical Inspiration. OBrien models the main characters lover interest subsequently Showcases (a brown-skinned young women guiding a group of mostly white men, speechmaking a language they dont know, knowing where to go, where to find food, and taking them west) There is but one news report. Chapter 9 Its All Greek to Me Myth Is the body of story that matters Greek and Roman myths are so Ingrained Into our consciousness that we dont throw how apparent they are. Like in William Carols Williams painting Landscape with Fall of Cirrus.Without the legs sticky out of the water in that making the painting that much slight popular. Chapter 12 Is That A Symbol If its not symbolism, its allegory Symbols are personal things We want It to mean one thing, but Is Impossible because then the sassy ceases to be what it is, a network of meani ngs and signification. Meaning doesnt lie of the surface of the novel. Authors whitethorn have the same object mean a variety of things. catch up with attention to how you feel about the text. It probably means something. Interlude Does He Mean That?