How to read novels like a professor: [a jaunty exploration of the world's favorite literary form]
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Published:
New York : Harper, c2008.
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Desc:
xviii, 312 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780061340406, 0061340405, 9780061340406 (pbk.), 0061340405 (pbk.)
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General Note
Subtitle from cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312).
Description
A guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Foster, T. C. (2008). How to read novels like a professor: [a jaunty exploration of the world's favorite literary form]. New York, Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Foster, Thomas C. 2008. How to Read Novels Like a Professor: [a Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form]. New York, Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Foster, Thomas C, How to Read Novels Like a Professor: [a Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form]. New York, Harper, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Novels Like a Professor: [a Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form]. New York, Harper, 2008.
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| 300 | |a xviii, 312 p. ;|c 21 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Subtitle from cover. | ||
| 520 | |a A guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface : Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Introduction : Once upon a time : a short, chaotic, and entirely idiosyncratic history of the novel -- Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions, or why novels have first pages -- You can't breathe where the air is clear -- Who's in charge here? -- Never trust a narrator with a speaking part -- A still, small voice (or a great, galumphing one) -- Men (and women) made out of words, or, my pip ain't like your pip -- When very bad people happen to good novels -- Wrinkles in time, or chapters just might matter -- Everywhere is just one place -- Clarissa's flowers -- Met-him-pike-hoses -- Life sentences -- Drowning in the stream of consciousness -- The light on Daisy's dock -- Fiction about fiction -- Source codes and recycle bins -- Interlude : Read with your ears -- Improbabilities : foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards -- What's the big idea- or even the small one? -- Who broke my novel? -- Untidy endings -- History in the novel/the novel in history -- Conspiracy theory -- Conclusion : the never-ending journey. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fiction|x History and criticism | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Books and reading | |
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