How to Read Novels Like a Professor

The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professora lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantess Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and todays masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history.Thomas C. Fosterthe sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professornow examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors choices about structurepoint of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuitycreate meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.