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The Old Lit Professors Book of Favorite Readings

Author : Kenneth Tucker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449059589
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Old Lit Professors Book of Favorite Readings written by Kenneth Tucker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Tucker taught English for more than thirty years at Murray State University. During his life he has read much indeed. The Old Lit Professor's Book of Favorite Readings collects a number of writings he finds enjoyable, rewarding, and memorable. Stories, essays, poetry, excerpts from longer works compose a potpourri indeed of exceptional writings ranging from Shakespeare to Sherlock Homes, from authors well-known to promising writers of today, including horror and science fiction as well as the classics. Authors range from Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Juvenal through Petrarch, Marguerite of Navarre, Marlowe, Dr. Johnson, to Poe, Hawthorne, Mevillle, to L. Sprague de Camp and William Faulkner on to contemporary poets. One exciting feature of this collection is that most of the selections have not been anthologized before. Although designed for pleasurable reading this book contains introductions and notes which make it suitable as a text for a variety of classes.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Author : Thomas C. Foster
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780062696854
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book How to Read Literature Like a Professor written by Thomas C. Foster and published by Harper. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codesof the ultimate professional reader, the college professor. What does it mean when a literary hero is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with 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—and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun. This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Author : Thomas C. Foster
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061804061
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book How to Read Literature Like a Professor written by Thomas C. Foster and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover 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 rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.

Rescuing Socrates

Author : Roosevelt Montas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224390
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Rescuing Socrates written by Roosevelt Montas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.

Missionaries

Author : Phil Klay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984880667
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Missionaries written by Phil Klay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year "Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review “A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . . By taking a long view of the ‘rational insanity’ of global warfare, Missionaries brilliantly fills one of the largest gaps in contemporary literature.” —The Wall Street Journal The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives. For Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, and Lisette, a foreign correspondent, America's long post-9/11 wars in the Middle East exerted a terrible draw that neither is able to shake. Where can such a person go next? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with local government to keep predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason, now a liaison to the Colombian military, is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it. Juan Pablo, a Colombian officer, must juggle managing the Americans' presence and navigating a viper's nest of factions bidding for power. Meanwhile, Abel, a lieutenant in a local militia, has lost almost everything in the seemingly endless carnage of his home province, where the lines between drug cartels, militias, and the state are semi-permeable. Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none. Missionaries is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.

Reading Old Books

Author : Peter Mack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691194009
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Reading Old Books written by Peter Mack and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the 21st century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings.

What Should I Read Next?

Author : Jessica Rosalind Feldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book What Should I Read Next? written by Jessica Rosalind Feldman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Should I Read Next? taps seventy University of Virginia professors in an array of fields for suggestions on how to satisfy this nagging intellectual curiosity. Each contributor recommends five titles that speak to their area of inquiry, providing both a general introduction and commentary on each selection. --from publisher description.

Orbiting Jupiter

Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054446222X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Orbiting Jupiter written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future,he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--

Critic and Good Literature

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critic and Good Literature written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Michigan School Moderator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Michigan School Moderator written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Make Your Home Among Strangers

Author : Jennine Capó Crucet
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250059666
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Make Your Home Among Strangers written by Jennine Capó Crucet and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizet, a daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school, secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college. Her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami, and amid a painful divorce, her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and older sister, a newly single mom--without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live. Amidst this turmoil, Lizet begins college, but the privileged world of the campus feels utterly foreign to her, as does her new awareness of herself as a minority. Struggling both socially and academically, she returns home for a Thanksgiving visit, only to be overshadowed by the arrival of Ariel Hernandez, a young boy whose mother died fleeing with him from Cuba on a raft. The ensuing immigration battle puts Miami in a glaring spotlight, captivating the nation and entangling Lizet's entire family. Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with hard decisions that will change her life forever. Her urgent, mordantly funny voice leaps off the page to tell this moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it's the new story of what it means to be American today.

Journal of Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Academy and Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Normal Instructor and Teachers World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Normal Instructor and Teachers World written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910