How to read literature like a professor

by Thomas C. Foster

2003 314 pages eng ★ 3.8 (18 ratings)

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that s…