how to read literature like a professor
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor. By: Lamar Butler. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion. Holy Communion within a religion. The Body The Blood The sense of unity. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion. “Sometimes a meal is just a meal ” …. (Foster 7). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
By: Lamar Butler
Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion
• Holy Communion within a religion.– The Body– The Blood– The sense of unity
Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion
•“Sometimes a meal is just a meal” …. (Foster 7)
Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion
• But, when a meal is shared it is communion.• Act of peace• Will usually only be done with people you
consider friends
Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion
• In literature…– Demonstrates the relationship of characters• Sexual• Animosity • Respect• Tension
• What if it fails?– Bad sign
Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
•“Not all eating that happens in literature is friendly.” (Foster 15)
Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
• Vampires in literature….– Dracula– Twilight
• Other things that go “bump” in the night..– Ghost– Werewolves– Zombies– doppelgängers
Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
• Below the surface..– The darkness within humans• Selfishness• Exploitation• Disrespect of human body• A deep hunger…
– Warnings
Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
• Even within the text the meaning is still totally
based on you…. The Reader
Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
• Things won’t always appear as what we may expect– “Daisy Miller”(1878)– Women in Love (1920)
Works Cited
• Foster, Thomas C.. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2003. Print