how to read literature like a professor every trip is a quest geography matters
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Every Trip Is a QuestGeography Matters
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Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)
Five elements:1) quester2) place to go3) reason to go there4) challenges/trials5) real reason to go
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Every Trip—cont.
• “The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge” (3).
• A quest might fail or might not be taken up• “’Always’ and ‘Never’ are not words that have
much meaning in literary study” (6).
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Every Trip—cont.
Having said that . . . Always consider the artist’s argument that might be made through:1. the quest2. the act of self-knowledge3. the specific self-knowledge achieved or
attempted4. the failure or rejection of the quest/self-
knowledge
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Geography Matters
• Geography/setting is not just physical place• Ask why a writer chose a specific setting,
because they do choose setting• “Literary geography is typically about humans
inhabiting spaces, and at the same time the spaces that inhabit humans” (166-67).
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Geography—cont.
• Setting (geography) can involve psychology, attitude, finance, industry, religion, politics, crime, leisure, etc.
• Setting can: 1) affect character development, 2) be symbolic
• The symbolism of characters going south
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Every Trip practice
• Beauty and the Beast• Kung Fu Panda• Star Wars I-III• Star Wars IV-VI• The Lion King• Elf• Monsters Inc.• Up• Despicable Me• Shrek• Finding Nemo
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Geo Matters
• Title• Paraphrase• Diction, imagery, rhyme, rhythm, etc.• Read again• Title again• Argument