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Readings about Reading

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco

The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Twenty Five Books that Shaped America by Thomas Foster

How to Read Noves like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

May 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods – 5/5 Stars One of the most exciting things to feel, for me at least, is when reading becomes not just an act of enjoying and engaging with a story or ideas, but an active hunt for meaning and understanding. I am a big proponent of doing the reading you want to do and mostly letting other people do the reading they want to do. Eco describes early in this collection of six lectures on reading (and specifically on […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: elizabeth hardwick, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Thomas Foster, umberto eco

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:231 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: elizabeth hardwick, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Thomas Foster, umberto eco ·
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A Fun Collegiate Literature Course in a Book!

January 1, 2018 by Halbs 1 Comment

It’s CBR10, YAY! At work, we often have informal lunchtime book exchanges. What a lucky guy I am to work where I work! Knowing my bookworm status, one of my friends handed off How to Read Literature Like a Professor to me, telling me it would change the way I read. She was right, in a very good way! While I have been a lifelong reader and writer, most of what I know about literature comes via osmosis. Besides some very basic freshman-level courses, I don’t […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Literary Criticism, Thomas Foster

Halbs's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Literary Criticism, Thomas Foster ·
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