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Häftad, Engelska, 2008
263 kr
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Tom Foster has established himself as the go-to literature expert for scores of readers across America; in his surefire bestselling hit How to Read Literature Like a Professor and its follow-up, How to Read Novels, he has opened countless literary minds to the finer points of reading and analyzing beloved books, all with his inimitable wit, good humor, and attention to detail—the very characteristics that define our favorite teachers and professors. In this newest book, he applies that combination of know-how and analysis and looks at the great masterworks of American literature and how each of them has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and Americans. Starting with Ben Franklin’s autobiography, he moves on to James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and Willa Cather’s My Antonia. Chief among later selections are The Maltese Falcon, U.S.A., The Grapes of Wrath, and Song of Solomon. Foster illuminates how these and other works captured an American moment, how they influenced our perception of nationhood and citizenship, and what about them endures in the American character. Foster quite literally fosters a sense of discovery throughout the book, peeling back layers from familiar favorites, and arguing for books that aren’t so obvious. He concludes with a list of twenty-five more contenders and outlines what exactly is the “Great American Novel.” Twenty-Five Books that Shaped America will further establish Foster as one of America’s most beloved teachers.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
261 kr
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film. No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled. We expect magic. While we're being exhilarated and terrified, our minds are also processing data of all sorts-visual, linguistic, auditory, spatial-to collaborate in the construction of meaning. Thomas C. Foster's Reading the Silver Screen will show movie buffs, students of film, and even aspiring screenwriters and directors how to transition from merely being viewers to becoming accomplished readers of this great medium. Beginning with the grammar of film, Foster demonstrates how every art form has a grammar, a set of practices and if-then propositions that amount to rules. He goes on to explain how the language of film enables movies to communicate the purpose behind their stories and the messages they are striving to convey to audiences by following and occasionally breaking these rules.Using the investigative approach readers love in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster examines this grammar of film through various classic and current movies both foreign and domestic, with special recourse to the "AFI 100 Years-100 Movies" lists. The categories are idiosyncratic yet revealing. In Reading the Silver Screen, readers will gain the expertise and confidence to glean all they can from the movies they love.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
143 kr
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From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential guide to poetry that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, this powerful form of literary analysis is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge. Poetry demands more from readers—intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually—than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But understanding poetry doesn’t need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more. From classic poets such as Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E.E. Cummings, Billy Collins, and Seamus Heaney, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor examines a wide array of poems and teaches readers:How to read a poem to understand its primary meaning.The different technical elements of poetry such as meter, diction, rhyme, line structures, length, order, regularity, and how to learn to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries.How to listen for a poem’s secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of poetry summons up.How to hear the music in poems—and the poetry in songs!With How to Read Poetry Like a Professor, readers can rediscover how to read poems and reap its many rewards.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
167 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
396 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2018
280 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
194 kr
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The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly difficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in mass media, stoked by foreign powers wishing to disrupt a democratic society. We need to be more perceptive, more critical, and more judicious readers, developing the essential skills of media literacy. The future of our republic may depend on it.How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is more careful, more attentive, more aware reading. On bookstore shelves, one book looks as authoritative as the next. Online, posts and memes don’t announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be by learning to think critically about every source.After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific nonfiction reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on identifying bias from writers, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary of broad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the written and spoken materials readers encounter. We can become better citizens through better reading, and the time for that is now.How can you learn to spot writers’ biases, analyze arguments, and think critically about the information you encounter every day?Critical Reading: Learn the Four Ps of nonfiction (Problem, Promise, Program, and Platform) to understand any text’s structure and intent from the very first page.Analyzing Arguments: Discover the building blocks of any argument—Claims, Grounds, and Warrants—so you can deconstruct a writer’s case and spot logical flaws.Evaluating Sources: From traditional journalism and biographies to the latest social media post, get specific strategies for interrogating every source you encounter.Fake News: Navigate the modern information age with confidence by learning to identify disinformation, hoaxes, and bad-faith writing online and in print.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
255 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
282 kr
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The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging writing guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing—and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher—retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you’ll learn a practical writing process, how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit.With warmth and wit, Foster shows you how to get into (and over) your best self, how to find your voice, and how to know when, if ever, a piece of work is done.Packed with enlightening anecdotes, highlighted with lists and bullet points, this invaluable guide reveals how writers work their magic, provides essential writing tips, and reminds us that we all—for better or worse, whether we mean to or not—are known by what we put on paper or screen, both our thoughts and our words.This is the practical, encouraging guide every writer needs to find their confidence and master the page.Overcoming Writing Anxiety: Move past the paralysis of the blank page with Foster’s warm and witty guidance, learning how to get into (and over) your best self.The Craft of Writing: Go beyond the basics with lessons on everything from constructing first drafts to knowing when a piece of work is truly finished.Develop Your Personal Style: Learn to inject your unique personality and intelligence into every sentence, moving beyond rigid rules to find the voice that is truly yours.A Masterclass from a Master Teacher: Benefit from decades of wisdom from the beloved professor and bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, packed with anecdotes from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
282 kr
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Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to the tools of literary analysis, covering a diverse range of writing and literary devices, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to improve your reading comprehension and make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings beneath the surface. How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition] helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the practiced analytical eye—and the literary codes—of a college professor.What does it mean when a protagonist is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he’s drenched in a sudden rain shower? As a master class in literary criticism for beginners, Thomas C. Foster provides answers to these questions as he explores every aspect of fiction, from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form. Offering a broad overview of literature—a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower—he shows us how to make our reading experience more intellectually satisfying and fun.The world, and curricula, have changed. This third edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect those changes, and features new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, as well as fresh teaching points Foster has developed over the past decade. Foster updates the books he discusses to include more diverse, inclusive, and modern works, such as Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give; Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven; Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere; Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X; Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird; Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street; Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God; Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet; Madeline Miller’s Circe; Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls; and Tahereh Mafi’s A Very Large Expanse of Sea.In this bestselling guide, you’ll learn to decode the hidden language of literature:How to Analyze a Book: Master the "grammar of literature" and learn to spot the symbols, themes, and patterns—from quests and shared meals to rain and vampires—that enrich any story.Literary Devices Explained: Understand the codes professors use to explore everything from narrative form to character archetypes, making your reading more intellectually satisfying and fun.Advanced Placement English Resource: Discover why this accessible guide has become a go-to resource and favorite summer reading for AP English students and teachers across the country.Modern and Diverse Examples: Explore insights from classic works alongside contemporary titles like The Hate U Give, Station Eleven, Neverwhere, and Circe.