How to Read Literature Like a Professor

What are the questions readers should ask of the text when trying to determine symbolic meaning?

Chapter 12.

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Ask questions of the text: what’s the writer doing with this image, this object, this act; what possibilities are suggested by the movement of the narrative or the lyric; and most important, what does it feel like it’s doing?

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor