12Monsters, Murder, & Madness Honors
All entering 12 Monsters, Murder, and Madness Honors will read How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Revised) by Thomas Foster, AND The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
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All entering 12 Monsters, Murder, and Madness Honors will read How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Revised) by Thomas Foster, AND The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines - Revised Edition
by Thomas C. Foster
"Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface--a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character--and theres that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain."
Subjects: Literature, Reference works, Education, Criticism, Reading
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The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction."
Subjects: Allegories; Literary fiction; Modern classics
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