Thomas C. Foster
Auteur de How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
A propos de l'auteur
Thomas C. Foster is a professor of English at the University of Michigan-Flint. He teaches contemporary fiction, drama, poetry, creative writing, and composition. He is the author of several books including Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits afficher plus Forged Our National Identity, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, and How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (2014) 4,535 exemplaires
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form (2008) 775 exemplaires
Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National… (2011) 190 exemplaires
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and… (2020) 132 exemplaires
How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding… (2022) 47 exemplaires
Reading the Silver Screen: A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves (2016) 20 exemplaires
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor 2 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Ohio, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Ohio, USA (birth) - Études
- Dartmouth College
Michigan State University - Professions
- professor (English, University of Michigan)
- Organisations
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Agent
- Faith Hamlin
- Courte biographie
- Thomas C. Foster is a professor of English at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he teaches contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry as well as creative writing and composition. He lies in East Lansing, Michigan. [adapted from How to Read Literature Like a Professor [rev. ed.] (2014)
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I read this book to prepare myself to lead a book group discussion on some poems we elected to read. It was very readable, informative, and humorous in all the right places. If you are venturing into reading poetry and don't know beans about it, this is the book for you.
Not an entirely unenjoyable trip through literary criticism. I think I actually learned a thing or two, but if I hadn't been reading this book for a class I probably wouldn't have finished it.
Most of the book was just talking about themes that come up often. This is fair enough, but so many chapters which are "X CAN BE METAPHORICAL TOO" or "Y IS REFERENCED OFTEN" with maybe a paragraph of what the associations are, why this'd be done, etc, feels very rudimentary. The best part of the book is the ending, which takes an excellent short story and provides some analysis of it, but again this analysis is fairly rudimentary - Foster focuses on one theme which isn't as obvious as he tries to treat it as and quotes an essay which is interesting but just points out examples of an image used in the text without really linking it to any other points.
It might not be 1 star bad, but I felt bored and skim read entire chapters. I constantly felt that I could do way better just by reading more books, which appeared to be his point anyway.… (plus d'informations)
It might not be 1 star bad, but I felt bored and skim read entire chapters. I constantly felt that I could do way better just by reading more books, which appeared to be his point anyway.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Membres
- 6,204
- Popularité
- #3,954
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 149
- ISBN
- 71
- Langues
- 6
A great way to remind ourselves, as readers, why we love novels!