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Writing Essays About Literature A Guide and Style Sheet

by: Griffith, Kelley

Writing Essays About Literature A Guide and Style Sheet

by: Griffith, Kelley

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9781413003956
ISBN 10:
1413003958
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/23/2005
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Widely used in introductory literature courses as a style guide or as a supplement to anthologies, this text provides students with valuable guidelines for interpreting literature and writing essays. The text includes full-length selections as well as student essays.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

xvii

PART ONE: Interpreting Literature

(194)

1 Strategies for Interpreting Literature

(8)

Why Do People Read Literature?

(1)

What Is Interpretation?

(2)

How Do We Interpret?

(3)

Checklist for Interpreting Literature

(1)

Work Cited

(2)

2 What Is Literature?

(20)

Literature Is Language

(2)

Literature Is Fictional

(3)

Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford

(2)

Literature Is True

(5)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, My Friend, the Things that Do Attain

(5)

Literature Is Aesthetic

(1)

Literature Is Intertextual

(5)

Checklist for the Elements of Literature

(1)

Works Cited

(1)

3 Interpreting Fiction

(46)

The Elements of Fiction

(41)

Theme

(5)

Point of View

(7)

Mary Robison, Yours

(1)

Plot

(10)

Characterization

(7)

Setting

(5)

Irony

(3)

Symbolism

(3)

Other Elements

(1)

Checklist for Interpreting Fiction

(2)

Works Cited

(3)

4 Interpreting Drama

(30)

The Nature of Drama

(1)

The Elements of Drama

(25)

Plot

(7)

Characterization

(5)

Setting

(4)

Theme

(3)

Irony

(3)

Subgenres

100

(3)

Checklist for Interpreting Drama

103

(2)

Works Cited and Consulted

105

(2)

5 Interpreting Poetry

107

(56)

What Is Poetry?

107

(2)

Emily Brontë, The Night Is Darkening Round Me

108

(1)

Sense in Poetry: Elements that Convey Meaning

109

(21)

Getting Started: Reading a Poem the First Time

109

(1)

Diction

110

(2)

William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

110

(2)

Syntax

112

(3)

Louise Bogan, Song for a Lyre

114

(1)

Characterization, Point of View, Plot, and Setting

115

(7)

Jane Kenyon, In the Nursing Home

116

(1)

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

117

(3)

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

120

(2)

Imagery: Descriptive Language

122

(1)

Imagery: Figurative Language

123

(5)

Samuel Daniel, Love Is a Sickness

124

(1)

Thomas Campion, There Is a Garden in Her Face

125

(3)

Symbolism

128

(2)

William Blake, The Sick Rose

129

(1)

The Sound of Poetry: Musical Elements

130

(10)

Rhythm

130

(7)

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 129

135

(2)

Word Sounds

137

(3)

Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen

138

(2)

Structure

140

(17)

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

144

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, I, Being Born a Woman

145

(1)

Anonymous, The Daemon Lover

146

(2)

Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for Death

148

(2)

Matsuo Basho, haiku

150

(1)

Taniguchi Buson, haiku

150

(1)

Kobayashi Issa, haiku

150

(1)

Psalm 23

151

(6)

Ezra Pound, Xenia

153

(1)

Amy Lowell, Road to the Yoshiwara

154

(1)

Langston Hughes, Vagabonds

154

(2)

Elizabeth Bishop, One Art

156

(1)

Sight: The Visual Qualities of Poetry

157

(3)

George Herbert, Easter Wings

158

(1)

e.e. cummings, 1(a

159

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

159

(1)

Checklist for Interpreting Poetry

160

(1)

Works Cited

161

(2)

6 Specialized Approaches to Interpreting Literature

163

(32)

Literary Criticism and Theory

163

(2)

Places for Interpretation

165

(1)

The Work

166

(11)

New Criticism

167

(1)

Structuralism

168

(4)

Deconstruction

172

(2)

Archetypal Criticism

174

(3)

The Author

177

(6)

Historical and Biographical Criticism

177

(2)

New Historicist Criticism

179

(4)

The Reader

183

(2)

Reader-Response Criticism

183

(2)

All of Reality

185

(8)

Marxist Criticism

186

(1)

Psychological Criticism

187

(2)

Feminist and Gender Criticism

189

(4)

Works Cited

193

(2)

PART Two: Writing about Literature

195

(204)

7 Writing about Literature

197

(4)

Why Write about Literature?

197

(1)

How Can You Write about Literature?

197

(2)

The Writing Process

199

(2)

8 Choosing Topics

201

(26)

Preliminary Steps

201

(6)

Be an Active Reader

201

(1)

Identify Your Audience

202

(3)

Raise Questions about the Work

205

(1)

Narrow Your Topic

205

(2)

Search Strategies

207

(6)

Focus on the Work's Conventions (Its Formal Qualities)

207

(1)

Use Topoi (Traditional Patterns of Thinking)

208

(3)

Respond to Comments by Critics

211

(1)

Draw from Your Own Knowledge

212

(1)

Talking and Writing Strategies

213

(5)

Talk Out Loud

213

(1)

Make Outlines

213

(1)

Freewrite

214

(1)

Brainstorm

214

(1)

Make Notes

215

(1)

Keep a Journal

216

(2)

Sample Essay about Literature

218

(7)

Michelle Henderson, "Paradise Rejected in Homer's Odyssey"

218

(7)

Comments on the Essay

225

(1)

Checklist for Choosing Topics

225

(1)

Works Cited

226

(1)

9 Drafting the Essay

227

(18)

The Argumentative Nature of Interpretive Essays

227

(1)

The Structure of Essays about Literature

228

(5)

The Argumentative Structure

229

(2)

The Rhetorical Structure

231

(2)

Guidelines for Writing First Drafts

233

(9)

Keep in Mind the Needs of Your Audience

233

(1)

Avoid Extreme Subjectivity (Overuse of "I")

234

(1)

Draw Up a Rough Outline

235

(1)

Begin Writing

236

(1)

Use Sound Deductive Reasoning

236

(1)

Support Key Claims with Facts

237

(1)

Use Sound Inductive Reasoning

238

(1)

Define Key Terms

239

(1)

Organize Evidence According to a Coherent Plan

239

(1)

Make Comparisons Complete and Easy to Follow

240

(2)

Checklist for Drafting the Essay

242

(1)

Works Cited

242

(3)

10 Revising and Editing

245

(1)

Revise Throughout the Writing Process

245

(1)

Revise for the Final Draft

245

(1)

Write a Clear and Readable Prose Style

246

(1)

Have Other People Read and Respond to Your Draft

247

(1)

Edit the Final Draft

247

(13)

Rules of Usage

247

(1)

Citations of Sources

248

(1)

Quotations

249

(9)

Other Rules of Usage Related to Essays about Literature

258

(2)

Physical ,Format

260

(1)

Sample Essay in Two Drafts

261

(16)

Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man

262

(4)

Early Draft

266

(2)

Comments on the Early Draft

268

(1)

Final Draft

269

(7)

Jennifer Hargrove, "A Comparison of Mary and Warren in Robert Frost's 'The Death of the Hired Man"'

Comments on the Final Draft

276

(1)

Checklist for Revising and Editing

277

(1)

Works Cited

277

(2)

11 Documentation and Research

279

(1)

Primary Sources

279

(1)

Secondary Sources

279

(2)

Research Papers and the Use of Secondary Sources

281

(1)

How to Find Information and Opinions about Literature

281

(16)

I. Library Catalogs and Stacks

282

(1)

II. Library Reference Room

282

(10)

III. Library Periodicals Room and Stacks

292

(1)

IV. Information and Opinion on the Internet

292

(5)

Evaluating the Quality of Internet Sites

297

(2)

Giving Credit to Sources

299

(4)

Why ShouldYou Give Credit?

299

(1)

When Should You Give Credit?

299

(3)

Where ShouldYou Give Credit?

302

(1)

Correct Documentary Form

303

(23)

Guidelines for Parenthetical Citations

304

(7)

Guidelines for Using Footnotes and Endnotes

311

(1)

Guidelines and Form for the Works Cited List: General Rules

312

(1)

Sample Entries for Books

313

(4)

Sample Entry for Articles in Scholarly Journals

317

(1)

Sample Entries for Articles in Popular Publications

317

(1)

Sample Entries for Computer Databases

318

(6)

Sample Entries for Other Nonprint Sources

324

(2)

Frequently Used Abbreviations

326

(1)

Sample Research Paper

327

(17)

Harold Wright, "The Monster's Education in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"

327

(17)

Comments on the Research Paper

344

(1)

Checklist for Documentation and Research

344

(3)

12 Taking Essay Tests

347

(1)

Guidelines for Taking Essay Tests

348

(3)

Sample Test Essays

351

(4)

Essay 1

352

(1)

Comments on Essay 1

352

(1)

Essay 2

352

(1)

Comments on Essay 2

353

(1)

Essay 3

353

(1)

Comments on Essay 3

354

(1)

Checklist for Taking Essay Tests

355

(2)

13 Sample Essays

357

(1)

Essay on a Poem

357

(5)

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory

357

(1)

George Cannon, "Point of View in Edwin Arlington Robinson's 'Richard Cory"'

358

(4)

Essay on a Short Story

362

(11)

Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

362

(6)

Blake Long, "Montresor's Fate in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado"'

368

(5)

Essay on a Play

373

(18)

Susan Glaspell, Trifles

373

(12)

Carolyn Briner, "The Meaning of Physical Objects in Susan Glaspell's Trifles"

385

(6)

Essay on a Novel

391

(8)

Shalita Forrest, "First Love, Lost Love in George Eliot's Adam Bede"

392

(7)

Glossary

399

(16)

Credits

415

(2)

Index of Concepts and Terms

417

(7)

Index of Critics, Authors, and Works

424

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