"I know of no other book that so vividly conveys what it's like to study with a great literature professor."
--James Shapiro, Columbia University, author of Shakespeare and the Jews It is a common situation that is all too familiar to literature professors everywhere. When teaching a great work of literature, be it Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1741), or Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), there is inevitably a moment in the classroom discussion of the book when the students confess to their professor that they do not "get it," they simply do not understand the inherent symbolism represented in the book of which the professor speaks of with such clarity and ease. As Thomas C. Foster states in his enlightening new book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, to the eager but frustrated literature student "it may seem at times as if the professor is either inventing interpretations out of thin air or else performing parlor tricks, a sort of analytical sleight of hand." Of course, literature professors have an obvious unfair advantage over their students: they are experienced readers who over the years have acquired an integral skill that Foster labels the "language of reading," something their students are only just beginning to understand. The "language of reading" is the grammar of literature, a set of conventions and patterns, codes and rules that are employed when dealing with a piece of writing. Quite simply, what does it mean when a fictional character embarks on a journey? Or gets caught in a torrential rainstorm? Or sits down to share a hearty meal with family and friends? In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster presents a lively and entertaining guide for your students to learn the subtle clues that form the "language of reading," thereby transforming their reading experience to a new level that is ultimately more enriching, satisfying, and fun. Written in an informal, friendly style that encourages a freewheeling approach to literature, How to Read Literature Like a Professor focuses on the key literary basics that are the foundation of all great literature: major themes and motifs (seasons, quests, food, politics, geography, weather, vampires, violence, illness, and many more); literary models (Shakespeare's plays, Greek mythology, fairy tales, the Bible); and narrative devices (form, irony, plot, and symbol, among others). Throughout his book, Thomas C. Foster draws upon an eclectic mix of clever examples from all genres: novels, short stories, plays, poems, movies, television, rock and roll song lyrics, and even cartoon favorites such as the noted "literary heroes" Rocky and Bullwinkle and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. To test the growth of the analytical skills of your students, Foster includes as a case study "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield, offering his own incisive narrative comments plus examples of his literature students' impressions of the classic 1922 short story. In addition, Foster also includes a comprehensive list of novels, poems, and plays that your students may find enjoyable and challenging, plus offers suggestions for secondary sources on reading, interpretation, and criticism. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, your students will come to clearly understand through Thomas C. Foster's witty and instructive style that a journey symbolizes a fictional character's heroic quest for self-knowledge, a torrential rainstorm can be cleansing or destructive to the character but it never just symbolizes that it is raining outside, and a meal may symbolize the religious ritual of the holy communion. How to Read Literature Like a Professor will inspire your literature students to unlock the deeper hidden truths of the literary texts whose many shades of symbolic meaning may initially be escaping their grasp. From page 47 in How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Автор: Penelope Lively Название: House in Norham Gardens ISBN: 0141361905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141361901 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: No 40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. In the junk room, Clare discovers the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins.
Автор: Lively Penelope Название: Ghost of Thomas Kempe ISBN: 1405288744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405288743 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike.
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Whispering Knights ISBN: 0194791947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194791946 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 2529.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Word count 17,100
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories ISBN: 024197853X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241978535 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'Lively remains a sublime storyteller' Guardian on How It All Began'More stylish than many writers half her age . . .
Lively knows a thing of two about storytelling.' The Times on How It All Began A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doing her weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one could guess; a couple who don't know each other at all even after fifteen years together; and, in the story from which this collection takes its name, a bird and a servant girl in ancient Pompeii who cannot converse, but share a perfect understanding. In this new and varied collection of short stories, Penelope Lively shows that she remains a master of her craft, and one of our finest English writers.
Автор: Lively Trisha Название: Atlas Shrugged: 100 Page Summary of Ayn Rand`s Classic Novel ISBN: 1939370000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939370006 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 826.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A Love Story. Dr. David Reynolds, a young American vascular surgeon, receives an invitation to practice surgery in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. His only hesitation is his Jewish background, even though he changed his name and stopped practicing Judaism 22 years ago. When he travels there and meets Jamila, the vibrant nurse who will be part of his surgical team, his reservations vanish. She is a Saudi princess and her father is powerful in the Kingdom, but she and David fall deeply in love. David converts to Islam to marry Jamila. After their marriage, when Davids true background is revealed, Jamilas father feels profoundly
Описание: This book will help you sell more. Over 30 years, Conor Kenny has learnt to sell largely by making mistakes and learning what makes people buy. First published as SALES TALES, HOW TO SELL is based on his personal experience in pursuit of sales excellence. These are real stories that will help you to be a better sales person and make more sales.
Автор: Glover Jeffry Название: 9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems ISBN: 1948854007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948854009 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3171.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This amusing collection of animal tales in rhyming verse features felines of all kinds, from pet cats to wild cats both real and fanciful, and a few beloved dogs. Meet a cat who needs encouragement to take a bath, a clever math-whiz cat, a sleepy cat dreaming of catching goldfish, a family pet named Maxie who rules the house matter-of-factly, a cat on the bank of the Nile who encounters a hungry crocodile, cats who think every day is Caturday, a catena of cats with catitude, plus tigers, lions, leopards, a lynx, and an ocelot more. With engaging characters, adventurous twists and turns, and whimsical wordplay, these poems will become pet family favorites to read aloud and treasure.
By a superstar eighteen-year-old activist, motivational speaker, and the youngest Certified Integrative Health Coach in America, a unique cookbook and inspiring guide that combines 80 delicious, wholesome, super-powered plant-based recipes with a "7 points of power" manifesto to inspire the next generation of leaders to take care of their health and nurture their ability to make an impact and create a life they love.
When her father developed Type 2 diabetes, eight-year-old Haile Thomas began a journey that would change her family's dietary habits, improve her dad's health, and radically transform her life. Now a social entrepreneur, speaker, and wellness + compassion activist, she is an advocate for conscious living who promotes resilience, positivity, and a healthy, nourishing lifestyle to young people everywhere.
Haile believes that to productively work toward our best selves, we must first fuel the vessel that supports us--our bodies. By incorporating healthy, plant-based dishes into our daily routine, we can boost qualities such as confidence, happiness, energy, and positivity. In Lively, she combines her uplifting message with tasty, wholesome food, providing dozens of nutrition-packed vegan recipes--all gluten, dairy, and egg-free--that pack a punch with bold and bright flavors, many inspired by her culinary adventures around the world. From starting the day with breakfast recipes for Good Mood Mornings to make it your own recipes in Craveable Combos essential meals for happiness in Soulful Staples and Pick Me Ups for no utensil required dishes and satisfying sweets to Treat Yo' Self and "Power Noms"--recipes that promote functional benefits such as boosting brain power, calming the body, and providing energy--the sensational food in Lively includes:
Golden Dream Turmeric Berry Chia Pudding Blender Oats Apple and Avo Quinoa Bowl with Raspberry Chipotle Dressing Nutty Spring Roll Bowl Avocado Biscuit Toast Fruity Jamaican Cornmeal Porridge Happy Harvest Grain & Green Bowl with Cheery Chimi' Shortcut Sweet Potato Pie Boats Jamaican Jerk Bahn Mi Lettuce Cups Beet Fusilli Pasta with Cashew Crema AB & J Swirl Brownies Make It Your Own Ice Cream Sandwiches Chill Dough (Golden Oat Cookie Dough Bites)
Lively combines these recipes with advice and insights from Haile's life as well as other dynamic, relatable young women, leaders who are activating their power every day, doing what they love, and making an impact. They include environmentalist and animal rights activist Hannah Testa, dancer and actress Nia Sioux, entrepreneur and mentor Gabrielle Jordan, global activist and sustainable fashion entrepreneur Maya Penn, and self-love advocate Luisa Gaffga. Their combined knowledge is distilled in what Hailie calls the "7 Points of Power"--Wellness; World Perspective; Media & Societal Influences; Thoughts & Spirituality; Education; Relationships; and Creativity & Giving.
Beautiful and uplifting, Lively empowers and teaches you how to take simple, actionable steps to nourish your body, live your best and most passionate life, and make the world a better place.
Rather than present development economics by introducing and explaining theories and concepts, this volume introduces the topic through the lens of a business investor exploration. Using the 52 developing countries of Africa as background, the reader is led to explore and analyze their economic environments over a combined period of 15 years. In so doing, various mechanisms, concepts and theories are utilized and they are introduced and explained at every step. This way, the reader becomes acquainted with the intricacies of development economics in a practical manner that involves real-life economic and business scenarios. Not only do they learn and grasp economic concepts and theories, they also learn how these work and when to deploy them. They should come away with a vivid understanding of development economics and developing countries characteristics, all of this experienced in an engaging, vibrant, graphically attractive and user-friendly process.
The book starts out with the conviction and basic premise that economic concepts are too often portrayed as complicated subject matter; its intent is to introduce macroeconomics to the reader and show that economics can indeed be a good friend with interesting stories to tell.
Possibly the first things noticed about the volume are its vivid colors and exciting appearance. That is deliberate: it has been designed to be invigorating and inviting to read, while being at the same time of the highest academic and analytical standards. In this light, of particular consequence are the incisive and pithy commentaries that accompany the analyses outcomes on every page.
Praise for work by Tony Okoromadu:
It is hard to imagine a more colorful and comprehensive reference book. This is a staggeringly detailed compilation. Clearly a massive undertaking.
AACSB The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business USA
A great deal of work and an extraordinary job in assembling this vast amount of interesting material and data. And he presents these in an imaginative and innovative way. The book is reminiscent of the style of The Economist's World in Figures and would sit well in that class.
Michael Hay Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship London Business School
A remarkable job of putting together the background information on Africa. The information is also beautifully and imaginatively displayed. This is a remarkable piece of work.
Martin Wolf Chief Economics Commentator Financial Times London
An indispensable tool. The target audience is foreign investors, government and development agencies. The format is easy-to-use, making the content readily comprehensible to a wider public. Deserves to become a standard reference for many years to come.
Jonathan Story Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy INSEAD France
His novel approach both sets today's statistics in a recognisable context and clearly improves the landscape for decision-making.
Baroness Lynda Chalker Former Cabinet Minister United Kingdom Government
It makes sense of the statistics, pointing out the trends, strengths and weaknesses that lie behind the figures. Reliable factual material, superbly presented and interpreted in a way that makes it immediately understandable. A rare commodity.
David White Former Africa Editor Financial Times London
A unique and impressive compendium. Represents a new and refreshing approach to country analyses.
Joe Nellis Professor of International Management Economics Cranfield University School of Management United Kingdom
Rather than present development economics by introducing and explaining theories and concepts, this volume introduces the topic through the lens of a business investor exploration. Using the 52 developing countries of Africa as background, the reader is led to explore and analyze their economic environments over a combined period of 15 years. In so doing, various mechanisms, concepts and theories are utilized and they are introduced and explained at every step. This way, the reader becomes acquainted with the intricacies of development economics in a practical manner that involves real-life economic and business scenarios. Not only do they learn and grasp economic concepts and theories, they also learn how these work and when to deploy them. They should come away with a vivid understanding of development economics and developing countries characteristics, all of this experienced in an engaging, vibrant, graphically attractive and user-friendly process.
The book starts out with the conviction and basic premise that economic concepts are too often portrayed as complicated subject matter; its intent is to introduce macroeconomics to the reader and show that economics can indeed be a good friend with interesting stories to tell.
Possibly the first things noticed about the volume are its vivid colors and exciting appearance. That is deliberate: it has been designed to be invigorating and inviting to read, while being at the same time of the highest academic and analytical standards. In this light, of particular consequence are the incisive and pithy commentaries that accompany the analyses outcomes on every page.
Praise for work by Tony Okoromadu:
It is hard to imagine a more colorful and comprehensive reference book. This is a staggeringly detailed compilation. Clearly a massive undertaking.
AACSB The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business USA
A great deal of work and an extraordinary job in assembling this vast amount of interesting material and data. And he presents these in an imaginative and innovative way. The book is reminiscent of the style of The Economist's World in Figures and would sit well in that class.
Michael Hay Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship London Business School
A remarkable job of putting together the background information on Africa. The information is also beautifully and imaginatively displayed. This is a remarkable piece of work.
Martin Wolf Chief Economics Commentator Financial Times London
An indispensable tool. The target audience is foreign investors, government and development agencies. The format is easy-to-use, making the content readily comprehensible to a wider public. Deserves to become a standard reference for many years to come.
Jonathan Story Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy INSEAD France
His novel approach both sets today's statistics in a recognisable context and clearly improves the landscape for decision-making.
Baroness Lynda Chalker Former Cabinet Minister United Kingdom Government
It makes sense of the statistics, pointing out the trends, strengths and weaknesses that lie behind the figures. Reliable factual material, superbly presented and interpreted in a way that makes it immediately understandable. A rare commodity.
David White Former Africa Editor Financial Times London
A unique and impressive compendium. Represents a new and refreshing approach to country analyses.
Joe Nellis Professor of International Management Economics Cranfield University School of Management United Kingdom
Автор: Lively, Penelope Название: Making It Up ISBN: 0143037846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143037842 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1287.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Look out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.
Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" What if Lively hadn't escaped from Egypt, her birthplace, at the outbreak of World War II? What would her life have been like if she'd married someone else? From a hillside in Italy to an archaeological dig, the author explores the stories that could have been hers, fashioning a sublime dance between reality and imagination that confirms her reputation as a singular talent.
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