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Reading and Writing About Literature

by: Gardner, Janet E.; Diaz, Joanne

Reading and Writing About Literature

by: Gardner, Janet E.; Diaz, Joanne

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Edition: 4th
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Copyright: 10/28/2016
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Brief and affordable, Reading and Writing About Literature acquaints you with strategies for reading literature while explaining the writing process for fiction, poetry, drama, and research papers.

Author Biography

Janet E. Gardner (PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) was formerly an associate professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where she taught courses in drama, British and world literature, and writing. She has published numerous articles, reviews, and chapters on contemporary drama, especially modern British drama and the work of Caryl Churchill. She has received several grants and awards for research into current teaching technologies.

Joanne Diaz is an associate professor in the English department at Illinois Wesleyan University. Her collections of poetry include My Favorite Tyrants (winner of the Brittingham Prize, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) and The Lessons (winner of the Gerald Cable First Book Award, Silverfish Review Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The American Poetry Review, At Length, The Missouri Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Third Coast. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. As a contributor to the Bedford/St. Martin’s LitBits Blog, she shares her insights on literature, writing, and pedagogy.

Preface

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
EMILY DICKINSON, "Because I could not stop for Death" (Annotated Poem)
Asking Critical Questions of Literature
BEN JONSON, "On My First Son" (Annotated Poem)
Checklist for Good Reading

3. THE WRITING PROCESS
Prewriting
The 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
Manuscript Form

4. COMMON WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
Summary
Response
        JAMAICA KINCAID, “Girl”
        STUDENT ESSAY: Tom Lyons, "A Boy's View of 'Girl'"
Explication
        ROBERT HERRICK, "Upon Julia's Clothes"
        STUDENT ESSAY: Jessica Barnes, "Poetry in Motion: Herrick's 'Upon Julia's Clothes'"
Analysis
        ROBERT BROWNING, “My Last Duchess”
        STUDENT ESSAY: Adam Walker, Possessed by the Need for Possession: Browning's '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
Stories for Analysis
        CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
        KATE CHOPIN, "The Story of an Hour" (Annotated Story)
Questions on the Stories
        STUDENT ESSAY: An Essay that Compares and Contrasts: Melanie Smith, "Good Husbands in Bad Marriages"

6. WRITING ABOUT POEMS
Elements of Poetry
Two Poems for Analysis
        WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, "Sonnet 116" (Annotated Poem)
Questions on the Poem
        T.S. ELIOT, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Annotated Poem)
Questions on the Poem
        STUDENT ESSAY: An Explication: Patrick McCorkle, "Shakespeare Defines Love"

7. WRITING ABOUT PLAYS
Elements of Drama
How to Read a Play
Director's Questions for Play Analysis
        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
Writing the Paper
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: Jarrad S. Nunes, "Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death': Challenging Readers' Expectations"

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

Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
Index of Terms

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