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The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide. Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you'll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit. With warmth and wit, Foster shows you how to get into (and over) your best self, how to find your voice, and how to know when, if ever, a piece of work is done. Packed with enlightening anecdotes, highlighted with lists and bullet points, this invaluable guide reveals how writers work their magic, and reminds us that we all--for better or worse, whether we mean to or not--are known by what we put on paper or screen, both our thoughts and our words.

The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide. Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you'll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit. With warmth and wit, Foster shows you how to get into (and over) your best self, how to find your voice, and how to know when, if ever, a piece of work is done. Packed with enlightening anecdotes, highlighted with lists and bullet points, this invaluable guide reveals how writers work their magic, and reminds us that we all--for better or worse, whether we mean to or not--are known by what we put on paper or screen, both our thoughts and our words.

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media. We live in an information age, but it is increasingly difficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in mass media, stoked by foreign powers wishing to disrupt a democratic society. We need to be more perceptive, more critical, and more judicious readers. The future of our republic may depend on it. How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is more careful, more attentive, more aware reading. On bookstore shelves, one book looks as authoritative as the next. Online, posts and memes don't announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be. After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understanding writers' biases, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary of broad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the written and spoken materials readers encounter. We can become better citizens through better reading, and the time for that is now.

Czytaj jak profesor. Nietypowe i ciekawe wskazówki, jak czytać między wierszami. Pierwsze polskie wydanie kultowego w Stanach podręcznika autorstwa Thomasa C. Fostera, emerytowanego wykładowcy z Uniwersytetu Michigan-Flint, to skarbnica podstawowej wiedzy na temat literatury, w tym symboli, motywów i tropów, dzięki której wasze czytelnicze doświadczenia staną się pełniejsze i bardziej satysfakcjonujące. Choć podczas lektury wielu książek na pierwszy plan wysuwa się fabuła, w tekście często kryją się głębsze, przeplatające się znaczenia. Czytaj jak profesor pomaga nam odkryć te literackie tajemnice, ucząc nas patrzenia na teksty kultury oczami doświadczonego zawodowego czytelnika – profesora uniwersyteckiego. Dowiemy się, jak rozszyfrowywać najróżniejsze literackie kody. Co to znaczy, gdy bohater powieści podróżuje pylistą drogą? Kiedy podaje trunek swojemu kompanowi? Gdy przemaka, zaskoczony ulewą? Autor, przybliżając bogactwo motywów, metod narracji, środków stylistycznych, modeli i form, zapoznaje nas z szeroką gamą dzieł literackich (i nie tylko). Służy nam za przewodnika po świecie, gdzie każda droga prowadzi na epicką wyprawę, wspólny posiłek może oznaczać komunię, a deszcz niesie ze sobą oczyszczenie lub destrukcję, ale nigdy nie jest wyłącznie zjawiskiem atmosferycznym. Dzięki temu wrażenia z lektury staną się źródłem jeszcze większej przyjemności. Z tej książki nie dowiecie się, co autor miał na myśli. Foster całą władzę w zakresie interpretacji przekazuje w ręce czytelników, udzielając jedynie pomocnych wskazówek. Lekki, dowcipny styl profesora wciąga i nie pozwala na ani chwilę nudy. Gwarantujemy, że po lekturze tej pozycji wasza lista książek do przeczytania wzbogaci się o kilka tytułów!

From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an essential guide to enjoying poetry, from Lord Byron to the Beatles. Poetry is both admired and feared; its rich history and emotional depth captivate many, yet its complexity can intimidate readers. Most of us first encountered poetry in beloved children's books, but as our reading shifted to prose, poetry became less familiar and more daunting. However, it doesn't have to be overwhelming. In an engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster helps readers conquer their fear of poetry and rediscover its joys. The book explores a diverse range of poets, including Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, and Seamus Heaney, teaching readers how to grasp a poem's primary meaning and appreciate its technical elements—meter, diction, rhyme, and structure. Foster encourages readers to view these elements as allies in understanding poetry. He also emphasizes the importance of listening for a poem's secondary meanings and recognizing the musicality in both poems and songs. With this guide, readers can unlock the rewards of poetry and enjoy its beauty once more.

Nepostradatelná analýza nejslavnějšího média — filmu. Když se v kině ztlumí světla a na plátně se ozve lví řev, těšíme se na to, jak budeme šokovaní, vystrašení, nadšení, dojatí a uchvácení. Zatímco jsme zároveň veselí a vyděšení, naše mysl zpracovává různá data — vizuální, jazyková, sluchová a prostorová — a dává tak dohromady význam. Foster ukazuje filmovým fanouškům, studentům, budoucím scenáristům a režisérům, jak se proměnit z pouhého diváka v kultivovaného čtenáře tohoto významného média. Investigativním přístupem, který si čtenáři zamilovali už v knize Jak číst literaturu jako profesor, zkoumá filmovou gramatiku na příkladu různých klasických i současných filmů natočených ve Spojených státech, ale i jinde ve světě. Díky Fosterově knize získá čtenář kvalifikaci a také sebedůvěru k tomu, aby si mohl ze svých oblíbených filmů odnést co nejvíce.

"No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled. We expect magic. While we're being exhilarated and terrified, our minds are also processing data of all sorts--visual, linguistic, auditory, spatial--to collaborate in the construction of meaning. Thomas C. Foster's Reading the Silver Screen will show movie buffs, students of film, and even aspiring screenwriters and directors how to transition from merely being viewers to becoming accomplished readers of this great medium. Beginning with the grammar of film, Foster demonstrates how every art form has a grammar, a set of practices and if-then propositions that amount to rules. He goes on to explain how the language of film enables movies to communicate the purpose behind their stories and the messages they are striving to convey to audiences by following and occasionally breaking these rules. In Reading the Silver Screen, readers will gain the expertise and confidence to glean all they can from the movies they love"--Amazon.com.

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts—that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codes—of the ultimate professional reader: the college professor. What does it mean when a literary hero travels along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature—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 a shower—and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun. This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface, and a new epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade.

Zo všetkých literárnych druhov je román bezpochyby najpríťažlivejší a najdiskutovanejší. Od Petronia, Miguela de Cervantes, Madame de la Fayette, Jane Austinovej až po súčasných majstrov sa román vyvíjal v závislosti od spoločenských, sociálnych a technologických zmien, celé stáročia vstrebávajúc tradíciu a nové myslenie. Nájdeme v ňom kultúru, predsudky, novú filozofiu, ideológie, náboženstvá a celé dejiny ľudstva. Thomas C. Foster geniálne sprevádza čitateľa cez fascinujúcu symboliku románov. Nech nám už román na samom začiatku zvestuje hocičo, ide o informácie o tom, kto, čo, kde, kedy, ako a prečo. Inými slovami, spôsob, akým je príbeh vyrozprávaný, je rovnako dôležitý ako príbeh samotný. Je len v rukách čitateľov, či si román obľúbia, alebo ho odmietnu, preto by mali o ňom niečo vedieť. V prvom rade musí čitateľ so spisovateľom spolupracovať a aj román sa mu potom odmení hlbším zážitkom, radosťou z čítania a dojmom, ktorý rezonuje ešte dlho potom, ako dočíta poslednú stránku. Profesor Foster je výborný rozprávač. Čítaj romány ako profesor je zábavná a inteligentná kniha určená širokému publiku. Nikto sa nenarodí ako skúsený čitateľ a ak chceme porozumieť hlbším rovinám textu, táto kniha bude naším spoločníkom a prinesie nám intenzívnejšie zážitky z čítania.