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"This popular, step-by-step guide presents a user-friendly introduction to contemporary critical theories- from new criticism to cultural studies- so readers can gain a deeper understanding of literature." "Texts and Contexts 5e" guides readers step-by-step through the application of a particular theory, giving them clear, practical examples. The text provides a wealth of writing strategies, examples, and practice materials that assist in explaining the assumptions underlying the various critical theories. Literary criticism, writing about lite... MORE

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Preface	p. xi
An Introduction, Theoretically	p. 3
Textual Tours	p. 3
Checking Some Baggage	p. 6
Anything to Declare?	p. 10
Recommended Further Reading	p. 12
Critical Worlds: A Selective Tour	p. 15
Brendan Gill, from Here at "The New Yorker"	p. 16
New Criticism	p. 17
Reader-Response Criticism	p. 20
Structuralist and Deconstructive Criticism	p. 22
Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies	p. 25
Psychological Criticism	p. 30
Political Criticism	p. 33
Other Approaches	p. 36
Works Cited	p. 37
Recommended Further Reading	p. 37
Unifying the Work: New Criticism	p. 39
The Purpose of New Criticism	p. 39
Basic Principles Reflected	p. 40
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica	p. 40
Radicals in Tweed Jackets	p. 44
How to Do New Criticism	p. 48
Film and Other Genres	p. 51
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay	p. 52
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother	p. 53
Preparing to Write	p. 54
Shaping	p. 55
Drafting	p. 56
Practicing New Criticism	p. 59
Lucille Clifton, forgiving my father	p. 59
Questions	p. 60
Stephen Shu-ning Liu, My Father's Martial Art	p. 60
Questions	p. 61
Ben Jonson, On My First Son	p. 61
Questions	p. 62
Useful Terms for New Criticism	p. 63
Works Cited	p. 64
Recommended Further Reading	p. 65
Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism	p. 67
The Purpose of Reader-Response Criticism	p. 67
New Criticism as the Old Criticism	p. 67
The Reader Emerges	p. 68
Hypertextual Readers	p. 72
How to Do Reader-Response Criticism	p. 73
Preparing to Respond	p. 73
Sandra Cisneros, Love Poem #1	p. 73
Making Sense	p. 74
Subjective Response	p. 76
Receptive Response	p. 78
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay	p. 84
Preparing to Respond	p. 84
Ernest Hemingway, A Very Short Story	p. 84
Preparing to Write	p. 89
Shaping	p. 92
Drafting	p. 92
Practicing Reader-Response Criticism	p. 95
Michael Drayton, Since There's No Help	p. 95
Questions	p. 96
Judith Minty, Killing the Bear	p. 97
Questions	p. 100
Caroline Fraser, All Bears	p. 101
Questions	p. 102
Useful Terms for Reader-Response Criticism	p. 103
Works Cited	p. 103
Recommended Further Reading	p. 104
Opening Up the Text: Structuralism and Deconstruction	p. 107
The Purposes of Structuralism and Deconstruction	p. 107
Structuralism and Semiotics	p. 109
Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction	p. 110
How to Do Structuralism and Deconstruction	p. 116
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium	p. 116
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay	p. 122
Amy Clampitt, Discovery	p. 122
Preparing to Write	p. 124
Shaping	p. 129
Drafting	p. 131
Practicing Structuralist and Deconstructive Criticism	p. 135
Questions	p. 135
USC Continuing Education, Cut Through the Anxiety...	p. 136
William Blake, London	p. 137
Questions	p. 137
Linda Pastan, Ethics	p. 139
Questions	p. 139
Useful Terms for Deconstruction	p. 140
Works Cited	p. 142
Recommended Further Reading	p. 142
Connecting the Text: Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies	p. 145
The Purposes of Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies	p. 145
Biographical and Historical Criticism	p. 146
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	p. 146
Cultural Studies	p. 151
New Historicism	p. 155
History as Text	p. 156
Marxist Criticism	p. 158
Postcolonial Studies	p. 161
How to Do Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies	p. 165
The Writing Process: Sample Essays	p. 168
John Cheever, Reunion	p. 168
A Biographical Essay	p. 171
Preparing to Write	p. 173
Shaping	p. 175
Drafting	p. 178
A New Historical Essay	p. 182
Preparing to Write	p. 182
Shaping	p. 183
Drafting	p. 184
Practicing Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies	p. 187
Rowland Wilson, Cartoon	p. 188
Useful Sources and Terms for Historical, Cultural, and Postcolonial Criticism	p. 188
Stan Hunt, Cartoon	p. 189
Works Cited	p. 194
Recommended Further Reading	p. 196
Minding the Work: Psychological Criticism	p. 199
The Purpose of Psychological Criticism	p. 199
How to Do Psychological Criticism	p. 205
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	p. 206
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay	p. 209
William Shakespeare, from Hamlet	p. 209
Preparing to Write	p. 210
Shaping	p. 214
Drafting	p. 216
Practicing Psychological Criticism	p. 220
Emily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	p. 220
Questions	p. 221
Marianne Moore, O to Be a Dragon	p. 222
Questions	p. 222
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach	p. 222
Question	p. 223
Useful Terms for Psychological Criticism	p. 223
Works Cited	p. 224
Recommended Further Reading	p. 225
Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory	p. 227
How to Do Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory	p. 235
Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal	p. 238
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay	p. 243
Samuel Johnson, To Miss_______On Her Playing upon the Harsichord...	p. 244
Preparing to Respond	p. 245
Shaping	p. 248
Drafting	p. 249
Revision: Gay and Lesbian Criticism	p. 252
Practicing Feminist, Post-Feminist, and Queer Theory Criticism	p. 254
William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee...	p. 255
Questions	p. 255
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood...	p. 256
Questions	p. 257
Tobias Wolff, Say Yes	p. 257
Questions	p. 261
Useful Terms for Political Criticism	p. 261
Works Cited	p. 263
Recommended Further Reading	p. 264
Investigating the Work: Research and Documentation	p. 267
The Purposes of Research	p. 267
How to Do Research	p. 272
The Topic and the Task	p. 272
Finding and Using Resources	p. 276
Background Sources	p. 277
Bibliographies, Indexes, Catalogs	p. 279
Online Sources, Ethics, Plagiarism	p. 280
The Writing Process: A Sample Research Paper	p. 286
Getting Ideas	p. 287
Organizing	p. 293
Drafting	p. 294
Works Cited	p. 298
Recommended Further Readings	p. 298
Appendix	p. 299
John Donne, The Canonization	p. 299
Credits	p. 301
Index	p. 303
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