Cameron Evans Mrs. Elrod AP Literature and Composition 19 Aug 2012 Observations for How to Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster Introduction: How’d He Do That? 1. Literature has a set of codes and rules‚ a set of conventions and patterns. 2. Conventions are used‚ observed‚ anticipated‚ and then fulfilled. 3. The three things that differentiate a professional reader from those less experienced are: memory‚ symbol and pattern. 4. A “Faustian bargain” is like making
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The inner journey can be brought about in numerous ways and commonly result in intense emotions. This is evident in the poems ?Of Eurydice? by Ivan Lalic and ?The French Prisoner? by Janos Pilinsky. It is apparent from these poems that inner journeys are brought about as a consequence of an extreme physical journey that can prompt profound feelings within an individual. This is explained in Shirley Geok?lin Lim?s text ?The Town Where Time Stands Still? from the BOS booklet. James Mangold?s film
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How to Read Literature like a Professor Chapter 1- Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not): • Quest consists of a knight‚ a dangerous road‚ a Holy Grail‚ a dragon‚ one evil knight‚ and one princess • Quest elements: a. quester b. place to go c. stated reason to go there d. challenges & trails e. real reason to go there- never involves stated reason • Real reason for quest is always self-knowledge • “always” and “never” have very little meaning in literature Chapter 2- Nice to Eat with You:
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How does a comparative study of Blade Runner and Frankenstein bring to the fore ideas about morality and science? The comparison of texts Blade Runner‚ directed by Ridley Scott and Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley allows the reader to explore their retrospective contexts and provides an insight into the values and perspectives that were apparent at the time of composition. Both these texts deal with issues surrounding changing morals and the progression of science. The texts offer us the perspective
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SEMIOTICS ASSIGNMENT The front cover of TIME magazine‚ issued on December 10‚ 2007 was taken before the start of the presidential campaign in America‚ and the man on the front cover is Barack Obama – who was a favourite at the time. The bias of the picture‚ the cover’s anchorage and the article altogether show that the underlying purpose of this magazine’s issue was to influence readers to side with TIME and vote for this man. This cover resembles a famous picture taken of Martin Luther King Junior
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Zeitgeist in contemporaneous literature The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in comparison to other novels and films Introduction The paper at hand deals with the question whether and to what extent elements of the zeitgeist can be found in Mark Haddon’s novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". In order to be able to draw comparisons other pieces of literature and film will be incorporated when focusing on several zeitgeist phenomena. First of all it might
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READERS RESPOND Plagiarism and overseas students: stereotypes again? Phan Le Ha This article is a response to Sowden’s (2005ab) and Liu’s (2005) articles on overseas students and plagiarism‚ published in ELT Journal 59/3. I appreciate Sowden’s efforts in exploring plagiarism in relation to culture‚ and his arguing against stereotypical views of overseas students studying in English-speaking countries. Although I agree with Sowden that culture plays a significant role in students’ learning
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Coleridge ’s ’Kubla Khan ’ and ’Dejection: An Ode‚ ’ [1] against the background of his aesthetic and spiritual idealism and postmodern criticism‚ especially Deconstruction. This presupposes an innovative intertextual treatment of the poems‚ intertextuality here not conceived as involving the relation between an author and a precursor expounded by Harold Bloom‚ but as a subtle elliptical psycho-aesthetic and spiritual mixture between the poems.It will be important‚ first of all‚ to define certain
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“Carter says of her stories in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ that allegory is intended1‚ but also that she keeps ‘an entertaining surface2’ ‚ that you ‘Don’t have to read them as a system of signification if you don’t want to3’” It incorporates values of intertextuality‚ Freudian theory‚ untypical genre conventions‚ absurd genre roles and explores the fine line of where paternal desire becomes much more than that. The gothic elements of the story make the narrative appear one dimensional as these are foregrounded
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himself. The poem‚ composed of seemingly fragmented ideas and stream-of-consciousness thoughts‚ ends on a note of peace‚ a peace that Eliot has attained and wishes modern man to experience. Works Cited Dupree‚ Robert S. "From Homer to Eliot: Intertextuality and the Epic.” An Intertextual Anthology. Ed. Robert S. Dupree. Dallas‚ Texas: U of Dallas‚ 1994. Eliot‚ T. S. The Waste Land. Ed. Michael North. New York: Norton‚ 2001. King James Version Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson‚ Inc.‚ 1997. Schwartz
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