EL 266 Foster (envoi)...In summary
"What this book represents is not a database of all the cultural codes by which writers create and readers understand the products of that creation, but a template, a pattern, a grammar, of sorts from which you can learn to look for those codes on your own." (Foster) p.280
I like the fact that Foster is saying that How to Read Literature Like a Professor is not a dictionary to look facts up nor is it a bible by literary law, but rather a book to further understand what we have been reading. At first, I thought that Foster came off as a pompous know-it-all. Then after I read the chapters, I realized that he is giving his opinions on literature as we do every Wednesday evening. This comes from a professor's point-of-view rather than a students, which is interesting, and informative.