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Chapter 16. It’s All About Sex… . How to Read Literature Like a Professor By: Thomas C. Foster. Created by: Raven-Simone Shaw. Sex is describe through…. Symbols Imagery . Female’s Sex Symbols. Chalices Grails Bowls Rolling landscapes Fertility Tunnels
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Chapter 16. It’s All About Sex… How to Read Literature Like a Professor By: Thomas C. Foster Created by: Raven-Simone Shaw
Sex is describe through… • Symbols • Imagery
Female’s Sex Symbols • Chalices • Grails • Bowls • Rolling landscapes • Fertility • Tunnels • Vessels waiting to be filled
Male’s Sex Symbols • Tall buildings • Blade
Other Sex Symbols • Stairs (falling down the stairs) • Fires • Seashores • Curtains • Waves on the beach • Fireworks • Campfires
Literature - Sex • The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Freud • Jessie L. Weston • Sir James Frazer • Carl Jung • The Maltese Falcon (1941) by Dashiell Hammett • Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) by Ann-Mareike Franz • North (1959) by Northwest
Imagery within Sex • Lances. Swords, guns, and keys. • Phallic symbols – an object that represents male generative powers.
Literature – Imagery • D.H Literature • The Rocking-Horse Winner (1932) • Lady Chatterley’s Love (1928) and Women In Love. • Used wrestling as a sex scene. • Symbolically fulfills the idea of masturbation.
Reasons for Disguised Sex • Writers could not make the real image of sex. • The sex codes worked at so many levels. • “More intense than literal depictions” (141).
Work Cited Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. Print.