Transcript Chapter 16. It’s All About Sex…

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
O Chalices
O Grails
O Bowls
O Rolling landscapes
O Fertility
O Tunnels
O Vessels waiting to be filled
Male’s Sex Symbols
O Tall buildings
O Blade
Other Sex Symbols
O Stairs (falling down the stairs)
O Fires
O Seashores
O Curtains
O Waves on the beach
O Fireworks
O Campfires
Literature - Sex
O The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Freud
O Jessie L. Weston
O Sir James Frazer
O Carl Jung
O The Maltese Falcon (1941) by Dashiell Hammett
O Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) by Ann-Mareike
Franz
O North (1959) by Northwest
Imagery within Sex
O Lances. Swords, guns, and keys.
O Phallic symbols – an object that represents
male generative powers.
Literature – Imagery
O D.H Literature
O The Rocking-Horse Winner (1932)
O 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
O Writers could not make the real image of
sex.
O The sex codes worked at so many levels.
O “More intense than literal depictions” (141).
Work Cited
Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer. New York:
HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. Print.