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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
(Edited)

If literature seems to be too comfortably patriarchal, a novelist like the late Angela Carter or a poet like the contemporary Eavan Boland will come along and upend things just to remind readers and writers of the falseness of our established assumptions.
Chpt 1

established = set in place
Winterbourne, the man whose attention she desires, while both attracted to and repulsed by her, ultimately proves too fearful of the disapproval of his established expatriate American community to pursue her further.
Chpt 3

established = existing
Once you've established that a book—a man's book at that, a war book—is borrowing a situation from Lewis Carroll's Alice books, anything is possible.
Chpt 5 *

established = shown
O'Brien plays here with the reader's established knowledge of history, culture, and literature.
Chpt 5

established = existing
He's hoping that your mind will associate Sarkin Aung Wan consciously or unconsciously with Sacajawea, thereby not only creating her personality and impact but also establishing the nature and depth of Paul Berlin's need.
Chpt 5

establishing = setting in place
No, his real political contribution is in setting a radical individualism in conflict with established institutions.
Chpt 13

established = existing
But irony typically depends on an established pattern on which it can work its inversions.
Chpt 15 *
A knight, usually a very young one whose "manhood" is barely established, sallies forth bearing his lance, which will certainly do until a phallic symbol comes along.
Chpt 16

established = set in place
So let's say that somewhere back there in the mists of time when storytelling was completely oral (or pictorial, if you count the cave walls), a body of myth began establishing itself.
Chpt 20b

establishing = creating
The green-coated band had arrived and was established in a corner of the tennis-court.
Chpt 27

established = settled
It offers a critique of the class system, a story of initiation into the adult world of sex and death, an amusing examination of family dynamics, and a touching portrait of a child struggling to establish herself as an independent entity in the face of nearly overwhelming parental influence.
Chpt 27

establish = prove

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(1) (establish as in: establish a positive tone)
create, start, or set in [a] place
(2) (establish as in: establish that there is a need)
show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

establish in How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Edited)

establish
in
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
(Edited)