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Writing About Literature

by: Roberts, Edgar V.

Writing About Literature

by: Roberts, Edgar V.

ISBN 13:
9780130978011
ISBN 10:
0130978019
Edition: 10th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2003
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

"Writing about Literature "serves as a hands-on guide for writing about literature, thus justifying the integration of literature and composition. The reading of literature encourages students to think, and the use of literary topics gives instructors a viable way to combine writing and literary study.

To the Instructor

xiii

Preliminary The Process of Reading, Responding to, and Writing About Literature

(45)

What Is Literature, and Why Do We Study It?

(1)

Types of Literature: The Genres

(2)

Reading Literature and Responding to It Actively

(9)

The Necklace

(8)

Guy De Maupassant

Reading and Responding in a Notebook or Computer File

(3)

Writing Essays on Literary Topics

(1)

Three Major Stages in Thinking and Writing: Discovering Ideas, Making Initial Drafts, and Completing the Essay

(1)

The Discovery of Ideas (``Brainstorming'')

(6)

Assembling Materials and Beginning to Write

(3)

Drafting Your Essay

(4)

Writing a First Draft

(1)

Developing an Outline

(2)

Demonstrative Essay, First Draft: How Setting in ``The Necklace'' Is Related to the Character of Mathilde

(1)

Developing and Strengthening Essays through Revision

(4)

Checking Development and Organization

(2)

Using Exact, Comprehensive, and Forceful Language

(5)

Demonstrative Essay, Improved Draft: How Maupassant Uses Setting in ``The Necklace'' to Show the Character of Mathilde

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

(1)

Essay Commentaries

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing the Writing Process

(2)

Writing About Likes and Dislikes Responding to Literature

(10)

Recording Your Responses in Your Computer File, Notebook, or Journal

(1)

Stating Reasons for Favorable Responses

(1)

Stating Reasons for Unfavorable Responses

(3)

Writing About Your Responses of Likes or Dislikes

(2)

Demonstrative Essay: Some Reasons for Liking Maupassant's ``The Necklace''

(1)

Commentary on the Essay

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Responses to Literature

(2)

Writing About a Close Reading Analyzing Entire Short Poems or Selected Passages from Prose Fiction and Longer Poems

(10)

The Purpose and Requirements of a Close-Reading Essay

(1)

The Location of the Passage in a Prose Work or Longer Poem

(1)

Writing an Essay on the Close Reading of a Poem

(3)

Demonstrative Essay: A Close Reading of Thomas Hardy's ``The Man He Killed''

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

(1)

Writing About the Close Reading of a Passage of Prose Fiction or Narrative Poetry

(3)

Demonstrative Essay: A Close Reading of a Paragraph from O'Connor's ``First Confession''

(1)

Commentary on the Essay

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing the Close Reading of a Poem or Prose Passage

(1)

Writing About Character The People in Literature

(12)

Character Traits

(1)

How Authors Disclose Character in Literature

(1)

Types of Characters: Round and Flat

(2)

Reality and Probability: Verisimilitude

(1)

Writing About Character

(4)

Demonstrative Essay: The Character of Minnie Wright in Susan Glaspell's Trifles

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Character

(1)

Writing About Point of View The Position or Stance of the Work's Narrator or Speaker

(16)

An Exercise in Point of View: Reporting an Accident

(1)

Conditions That Affect Point of View

(2)

Determining a Work's Point of View

(3)

Mingling Points of View

(1)

Summary: Guidelines for Point of View

(2)

Writing About Point of View

(5)

Demonstrative Essay: Bierce's Control over Point of View in ``An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Point of View

(1)

Writing About Plot and Structure The Development and Organization of Narratives and Drama

(14)

Plot: The Motivation and Causation of Narratives and Plays

(2)

Writing About the Plot of a Story or Play

(3)

Demonstrative Essay (on Plot): Conflicting Values in Thomas Hardy's ``The Three Strangers''

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

(1)

The Structure of Narratives and Drama

(1)

Formal Categories of Structure

100

(1)

Formal and Actual Structure

101

(2)

Writing About Structure in Narratives and Drama

103

(3)

Demonstrative Essay (on Structure): Conflict and Suspense in Thomas Hardy's ``The Three Strangers''

104

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

106

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Plot and Structure

107

(1)

Writing About Setting The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Literature

108

(9)

What Is Setting?

108

(1)

The Importance of Setting in Literature

109

(3)

Writing About Setting

112

(3)

Demonstrative Essay: Poe's Use of Interior Setting to Augment the Eeriness of ``The Masque of the Red Death''

114

(1)

Commentary on the Essay

115

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Setting

116

(1)

Writing About an Idea or a Theme The Meanings and the Messages in Literature

117

(10)

Ideas and Assertions

117

(1)

Ideas and Values

118

(1)

The Place of Ideas in Literature

118

(1)

How to Find Ideas

119

(3)

Writing About a Major Idea in Literature

122

(3)

Demonstrative Essay: The Idea of Love's Power in Chekhov's The Bear

124

(1)

Commentary on the Essay

125

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Ideas

126

(1)

Writing About Metaphors and Similes A Source of Depth and Range in Literature

127

(10)

Metaphors and Similes: The Major Figures of Speech

127

(2)

Characteristics of Metaphorical Language

129

(2)

``On First Looking into Chapman's Homer''

130

(1)

John Keats

Writing About Metaphors and Similes

131

(4)

Demonstrative Essay (on Metaphors): A Study of Shakespeare's Metaphors in ``Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought''

134

(1)

Commentary on the Essay

135

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Metaphors and Similes

136

(1)

Writing About Symbolism and Allusions Windows to a Wide Expanse of Meaning

137

(11)

Symbolism

137

(1)

Symbolism and Meanings

138

(2)

Allusion and Symbolism

140

(1)

Studying for Symbols and Allusions

140

(1)

Writing About Symbolism and Allusions

141

(5)

Demonstrative Essay: Symbolism and Allusion in William Butler Yeats's ``The Second Coming''

144

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

146

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Symbolism and Allusions

146

(2)

Writing About Tone The Writer's Control over Attitudes and Feeling

148

(12)

Tone and Attitudes

149

(1)

Tone and Humor

150

(1)

Tone and Irony

151

(2)

Writing About Tone

153

(5)

Demonstrative Essay: Chopin's Use of Irony in ``The Story of an Hour''

156

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

158

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Tone

159

(1)

Writing About a Problem Challenges to Overcome in Reading

160

(7)

Strategies for Developing an Essay About a Problem

160

(3)

Writing About a Problem

163

(2)

Demonstrative Essay: The Problem of Frost's Use of the Term Desert Places in the Poem ``Desert Places''

164

(1)

Commentary on the Essay

165

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Literary Problems

166

(1)

Writing About Poetic Form The Shape of the Poem

167

(16)

Characteristics of Closed-Form Poetry

167

(1)

Types of Closed Forms

168

(5)

The Eagle

170

(3)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

The Use of the Closed Form to Shape and Polish Meaning

173

(1)

Sonnet 116: ``Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds''

173

(1)

William Shakespeare

Open-Form Poetry

174

(2)

Reconciliation

175

(1)

Walt Whitman

Visual Poetry

176

(1)

Easter Wings

176

(177)

George Herbert

Writing About Form in Poetry

177

(4)

Demonstrative Essay: Form and Meaning in George Herbert's ``Virtue''

179

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

181

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Poetic Form

181

(2)

Writing Essays of Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together

183

(14)

Guidelines for the Comparison-Contrast Method

184

(3)

The Extended Comparison-Contrast Essay

187

(1)

Writing a Comparison-Contrast Essay

187

(4)

Demonstrative Essay (Comparing and Contrasting Two Works): The Treatment of Responses to War in Amy Lowell's ``Patterns'' and Wilfred Owen's ``Anthem for Doomed Youth''

189

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

191

(4)

Demonstrative Essay (Extended Comparison-Contrast): Literary Treatments of Conflicts Between Private and Public Life

192

(3)

Commentary on the Essay

195

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Comparison and Contrast

196

(1)

Writing a Review Essay Developing Ideas for General or Particular Audiences

197

(10)

Writing a Review Essay

197

(4)

First Demonstrative Essay (A Review for General Readers): Hawthorne's Story ``Young Goodman Brown'': A View of Mistaken Zeal

200

(1)

Commentary on the Essay

201

(2)

Second Demonstrative Essay (Designed for a Particular Group; Here, a Religious Group): Hawthorne's Story ``Young Goodman Brown'' and Religious Intolerance

201

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

203

(2)

Third Demonstrative Essay (A Personal Review for a General Audience): Security and Hawthorne's Story ``Young Goodman Brown''

203

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

205

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing the Writing of Reviews

205

(2)

Writing About Film Drama on the Silver Screen, Television Set, and Computer Monitor

207

(15)

A Thumbnail History of Film

207

(2)

Stage Plays and Film

209

(1)

The Aesthetics of Film

210

(1)

The Techniques of Film

210

(5)

Writing About a Film

215

(4)

Demonstrative Essay (on Film): Welles's Citizen Kane: Whittling a Giant Down to Size

217

(2)

Commentary on the Essay

219

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing Film

220

(2)

Writing Examinations on Literature

222

(12)

Answering the Questions That Are Asked

222

(2)

Systematic Preparation

224

(3)

Two Basic Types of Questions About Literature

227

(7)

Writing and Documenting the Research Essay Using Extra Resources for Understanding

234

(30)

Selecting a Topic

234

(2)

Setting up a Bibliography

236

(1)

Online Library Services

237

(1)

Taking Notes and Paraphrasing Material

238

(10)

Documenting Your Work

248

(4)

Strategies for Organizing Ideas in Your Research Essay

252

(10)

Demonstrative Research Essay: The Structure of Mansfield's ``Miss Brill''

254

(8)

Commentary on the Essay

262

(1)

Special Topics for Studying and Discussing How to Undertake Research Essays

263

(1)

Appendix A Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature

264

(15)

Moral/Intellectual

265

(1)

Topical/Historical

266

(1)

New Critical/Formalist

267

(2)

Structuralist

269

(1)

Feminist

270

(1)

Economic Determinist/Marxist

271

(1)

Psychological/Psychoanalytic

272

(2)

Archetypal/Symbolic/Mythic

274

(1)

Deconstructionist

275

(1)

Reader-Response

276

(3)

Appendix B The Use of References and Tenses in Writing About Literature

279

(9)

Integrating Passages and Ideas into Your Essay

279

(5)

Using the Present Tense of Verbs When Referring to Actions and Ideas in a Work

284

(1)

MLA Recommendations for Documenting Electronic Sources

285

(3)

Appendix C Works Used for Demonstrative Essays and References

288

(80)

Stories

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

288

(6)

Ambrose Bierce

The Story of an Hour

294

(2)

Kate Chopin

The Three Strangers

296

(13)

Thomas Hardy

Young Goodman Brown

309

(9)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Miss Brill

318

Katherine Mansfield

The Necklace [in Chapter 1]

(316)

Guy de Maupassant

First Confession

321

(5)

Frank O'Connor

The Masque of the Red Death

326

(5)

Edgar Allan Poe

Poems

Dover Beach

331

(1)

Matthew Arnold

The Tyger

332

(1)

William Blake

Kubla Khan

333

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Desert Places

334

(1)

Robert Frost

Channel Firing

335

(1)

Thomas Hardy

The Man He Killed

336

Thomas Hardy

Easter Wings [in Chapter 13]

176

(161)

George Herbert

Virtue

337

(1)

George Herbert

Negro

337

(1)

Langston Hughes

Bright Star

338

John Keats

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer [in Chapter 9]

130

(209)

John Keats

Rhine Boat Trip

339

(1)

Irving Layton

Patterns

339

(3)

Amy Lowell

Anthem for Doomed Youth

342

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Ballad of Birmingham

343

(1)

Dudley Randall

Echo

344

(1)

Christina Rossetti

Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought

345

(1)

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayest in Me Behold

345

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds [in Chapter 13]

173

William Shakespeare

The Eagle [in Chapter 13]

170

(176)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

The Boxes

346

Shelly Wagner

Reconciliation [in Chapter 13]

175

(172)

Walt Whitman

Lines Written in Early Spring

347

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Second Coming

348

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Plays

The Bear: A Joke in One Act

349

(9)

Anton Chekhov

Trifles

358

(10)

Susan Glaspell

A Glossary of Important Literary Terms

368

(10)

Acknowledgments

378

(1)

Index of Authors, Topics, Directors, Producers, and Chapter Titles

379

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