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Short Guide to Writing About Literature, A
ISBN: 9780321104762 | 0321104765
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003
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The tenth edition of A Short Guide to Writing about Literature continues to offer students sound advice on how to become critical thinkers and enrich their reading response through accessible, step-by-step instruction. This highly respected text is ideal as a supplement to any course where writing about literature or literary studies is emphasized. New to the Tenth Edition: A prefatory "Letter to Students" introduces students to the importance of writing about literature. New Chapter 1: What Is Literature, and Why Write About It? Chapter 2 feat... MORE
I. JUMPING IN.
1. The Writer as Reader: Reading and Responding.
2. The Reader as Writer: Drafting and Writing.
3. Two Forms of Criticism: Explication and Analysis.
4. Other Kinds of Writing About Literature.
II. STANDING BACK: THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT LITERATURE.
5. What Is Literature?
6. What Is Interpretation?
7. What Is Evaluation?
8. Writing About Literature: An Overview.
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9. Writing About Fiction: The World of the Story.
10. Writing About Drama.
11. Writing About Poetry.
12. Writing About an Author in Depth.
IV. INSIDE: STYLE, FORMAT, AND SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS.
13. Style and Format.
14. Writing a Research Paper.
15. New Approaches to the Research Paper: Literature, History, and the World Wide Web.
16. Essay Examinations.
Appendix A: Two Stories.
James Joyce, Araby.
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path.
Appendix B: Literary Research: Print and Electronic Resources.
Appendix C: Glossary of Literary Terms.
Credits.
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems.
Index of Literary Terms.
