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PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's

ISBN-10131921505X

ISBN-139781319215057

eBay Product ID (ePID)25050375138

Product Key Features

Edition5

Book TitleReading and Writing about Literature : a Portable Guide

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicGeneral

GenreLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections

AuthorJoanne Diaz, Janet Gardner

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight8.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2020-936679

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal808/.042

Table Of Content[* Indicates sections or material new to this edition] Preface for Instructors Brief Contents 1. INTRODUCTION TO READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Why Read Literature? Why Write about Literature? What to Expect in a Literature Class Literature and Enjoyment 2. THE ROLE OF GOOD READING The Value of Rereading Critical Reading The Myth of "Hidden Meaning" Active Reading Annotating *WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Second Coming (Annotated Poem) Note Taking Journal Keeping Using Reference Materials Questions for Active Reading: Fiction Questions for Active Reading: Poetry Questions for Active Reading: Drama Asking Critical Questions of Literature BEN JONSON, On My First Son (Annotated Poem) Checklist for Good Reading 3. THE WRITING PROCESS Prewriting Choosing a Topic *Developing an Argument *The Thesis Gathering Support for Your Thesis Organizing Your Paper Drafting the Paper Revising and Editing Global Revision Checklist Local Revision Checklist Final Editing Checklist Peer Editing and Workshops Tips for Writing about Literature Using Quotations Effectively Quoting from Stories Quoting from Poems Quoting from Plays Formatting Your Paper 4. COMMON WRITING ASSIGNMENTS Summary Response *ZORA NEALE HURSTON, Sweat *STUDENT ESSAY: Taylor Plantan, "A Response to ''Sweat''" *Explication ROBERT HERRICK, Upon Julia''s Clothes STUDENT ESSAY: Jessica Barnes, Poetry in Motion: Herricks Upon Julias Clothes *Analysis ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess STUDENT ESSAY: Adam Walker, "Possessed by the Need for Possession: Brownings My Last Duchess Comparison and Contrast CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, After Death STUDENT ESSAY: Todd Bowen, Speakers for the Dead: Narrators in My Last Duchess and After Death Essay Exams WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 73" ROBERT HERRICK, To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time STUDENT ESSAY EXAM: Midterm Essay 5. WRITING ABOUT STORIES Elements of Fiction Plot Character Point of View Setting Theme Symbolism Style Stories for Analysis CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper KATE CHOPIN, The Story of an Hour (Annotated Story) STUDENT ESSAY: An Essay that Compares and Contrasts: Melanie Smith, Good Husbands in Bad Marriages 6. WRITING ABOUT POEMS Elements of Poetry The Speaker The Listener Imagery Sound and Sense Two Poems for Analysis WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 116 (Annotated Poem) T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Annotated Poem) STUDENT ESSAY: An Explication: Patrick McCorkle, Shakespeare Defines Love 7. WRITING ABOUT PLAYS Elements of Drama Plot, Character, and Theme Diction Spectacle Setting How to Read a Play Watching a Play The Director''s Vision SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles STUDENT ESSAY: An Analysis: Sarah Johnson, Moral Ambiguity and Character Development in Trifles 8. WRITING A LITERARY RESEARCH PAPER Finding Sources Evaluating Sources Working with Sources Quotations *Paraphrases and Summaries Commentaries Keeping Track of Your Sources Writing the Paper Refine Your Thesis Organize Your Evidence Start Your Draft Revise Edit and Proofread *Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism What to Document and What Not to Document Documenting Sources: MLA Format In-Text Citations Preparing Your Works Cited List *STUDENT ESSAY: Research Paper: Rachel McCarthy, "The Widening Gyres of Chaos in Yeats''s ''The Second Coming''" 9. LITERARY CRITICISM AND LITERARY THEORY Formalism and New Criticism Feminist and Gender Criticism Queer Theory Marxist Criticism Cultural Studies Postcolonial Criticism Historical Criticism and New Historicism Psychological Theories Reader-Response Theories Structuralism Poststructuralism and Deconstruction *Ecocriticism Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms Acknowledgments Index of Terms

SynopsisReading and Writing about Literature provides the essentials of reading and writing about literature in a brief and very affordable package.

LC Classification NumberPE1479.C7G36 2021