Chapter 26- Is He Serious? and other ironies (Irony Trumps Everything)
Irony is one of the most difficult concepts for a reader to master. And the author tells us that irony can come in an infinite number of forms: comic, wry, perplexing, or tragic etc. To find irony a reader needs to dig deep in literature.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (23-24-25)
Chapter 23- It's Never Just Heart Disease
Heart disease is commonly used in literature to express the character's feelings or society's feelings toward that character. (i.e. "bad love, loneliness, cruelty, disloyalty, lack of determination" just to name a few) These feelings are used with heart disease because they often cause or accompany a heartbreak.
Chapter 24- ...And Rarely Just Illness
Illness, especially in earlier novels, is mysterious, frightening, and dangerous, a force to be reckoned with.There are four aspects to diseases in literature, these include:
-Not all diseases are created equal: each disease has its own literal effect on the character and therefore each has different symbols and implications on the story line (a venereal disease shows evidence towards cheating in a marriage: moral corruption)
-It should be picturesque: we should be able to feel the pain of the character, vividly picturing the sufferer
-It should be mysterious: the origin of the disease should be unknown to the reader, at least in older novels
-It should be symbolic and/or metaphoric: Different diseases symbolize different things
Chapter 25- Don't Read With Your Eyes
The reader is to put his or her self in the character's situation to get the full gist of the story and the characters' view point.
Heart disease is commonly used in literature to express the character's feelings or society's feelings toward that character. (i.e. "bad love, loneliness, cruelty, disloyalty, lack of determination" just to name a few) These feelings are used with heart disease because they often cause or accompany a heartbreak.
Chapter 24- ...And Rarely Just Illness
Illness, especially in earlier novels, is mysterious, frightening, and dangerous, a force to be reckoned with.There are four aspects to diseases in literature, these include:
-Not all diseases are created equal: each disease has its own literal effect on the character and therefore each has different symbols and implications on the story line (a venereal disease shows evidence towards cheating in a marriage: moral corruption)
-It should be picturesque: we should be able to feel the pain of the character, vividly picturing the sufferer
-It should be mysterious: the origin of the disease should be unknown to the reader, at least in older novels
-It should be symbolic and/or metaphoric: Different diseases symbolize different things
Chapter 25- Don't Read With Your Eyes
The reader is to put his or her self in the character's situation to get the full gist of the story and the characters' view point.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Intr-21-22)
9-5-12
Interlude- One Story
All works of literature are all parts of a ONE STORY. Whenever and where ever someone is writing they are borrowing bits and pieces of other stories, movies, and life experiences therefore no work is complete originality.
Chapter 21- Marked for Greatness
Scars or diseases hint towards things in characters' pasts. These marks may make the characters hard on the eyes, but in most cases, these "monsters" have fabulous personalities. This is why many main characters, the "good guys," and questers have scars; just because they look bad doesn't mean they are bad.
Chapter 22-He's Blind for a Reason, You Know
Like other ailments in the last chapter, having blindness as a disability has symbolism too. In most cases, even though blind people can't literally see, they have a gift to see the truth.
Interlude- One Story
All works of literature are all parts of a ONE STORY. Whenever and where ever someone is writing they are borrowing bits and pieces of other stories, movies, and life experiences therefore no work is complete originality.
Chapter 21- Marked for Greatness
Scars or diseases hint towards things in characters' pasts. These marks may make the characters hard on the eyes, but in most cases, these "monsters" have fabulous personalities. This is why many main characters, the "good guys," and questers have scars; just because they look bad doesn't mean they are bad.
Chapter 22-He's Blind for a Reason, You Know
Like other ailments in the last chapter, having blindness as a disability has symbolism too. In most cases, even though blind people can't literally see, they have a gift to see the truth.
Monday, September 3, 2012
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (18-19-20)
Sept- 3
Chapter 18- If She Comes Up, It's Baptism
If a character goes into water and survives under unbelievable circumstances, he or she is symbolically reborn. Baptism is about death, rebirth and new identity normally but it can also be about change of faith. Death also has symbolic meaning of ..."character revelation, development of violence or failure or guilt, or plot complication."
Chapter 19- Geography Matters...
Geography consists things like hills, creeks,and deserts, but also things like politics, history, and economics. The element of geography can be reveal characteristics of other parts of the story: theme, plot, symbol, or define & develop a character.
Chapter 20- ...So Does Season
Using seasons in literature has been used for centuries. Season sometimes refers to age, happiness vs sadness, point of view on life, tone, time of day.
Chapter 18- If She Comes Up, It's Baptism
If a character goes into water and survives under unbelievable circumstances, he or she is symbolically reborn. Baptism is about death, rebirth and new identity normally but it can also be about change of faith. Death also has symbolic meaning of ..."character revelation, development of violence or failure or guilt, or plot complication."
Chapter 19- Geography Matters...
Geography consists things like hills, creeks,and deserts, but also things like politics, history, and economics. The element of geography can be reveal characteristics of other parts of the story: theme, plot, symbol, or define & develop a character.
Chapter 20- ...So Does Season
Using seasons in literature has been used for centuries. Season sometimes refers to age, happiness vs sadness, point of view on life, tone, time of day.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)