Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory

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Each chapter concludes with Works Cited and Recommended Further Reading sections. Preface. 1. An Introduction, Theoretically. Textual Tours. Checking Some Baggage. Anything to Declare? 2. Critical Visions: A Selective Tour. New Criticism. From Here at The New Yorker, Brendan Gill. Reader-Response Criticism. Deconstructive Criticism. Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies. Psychological Criticism. Feminist Criticism. Other Approaches. 3. Unifying the Work: New Criticism. The Purpose of New Criticism. Basic Principles Reflected. Ars Poetica, Archibald MacLeish. Radicals in Tweed Jackets. How to Do New Criticism. The Writing Process: A Sample Essay. The Mother, Gwendolyn Brooks. Preparing to Write. Shaping. Drafting. Practicing New Criticism. Forgiving my Father, Lucille Clifton. Questions. My Father's Martial Art, Stephen Shu-ning Liu. Questions. 4. Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism. The Purpose of Reader-Response Criticism. New Criticism as the Old Criticism. The Reader Emerges. Hypertextual Readers. How to Do Reader-Response Criticism. Preparing to Respond. Love Poem #1, Sandra Cisneros. Making Sense. Subjective Response. Receptive Response. The Writing Process: A Sample Essay. Preparing to Respond. A Very Short Story, Ernest Hemmingway. Preparing to Write. Shaping. Drafting. Practicing Reader-Response Criticism. Since There's No Help, Michael Drayton. Questions. Killing the Bear, Judith Minty. Questions. 5. Opening up the Text: Deconstructive Criticism. The Purpose of Deconstruction. How to Do Deconstruction. Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats. The Writing Process: A Sample Essay. Discovery, Amy Clampitt. Preparing to Write. Shaping. Drafting. Practicing Deconstructive Criticism. Cut Through the Anxiety, USC Continuing Education. London, William Blake. Questions. 6. Connecting the Text: Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies. The Purposes of Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies. Biographical and Historical Criticism. When I Consider How My Light is Spent, John Milton. Cultural Studies. New Historicism. History as Text. Marxist Criticism. Postcolonial Studies. How to Do Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies The Writing Process: Sample Essays. Reunion, John Cheever. A Biographical Essay. Preparing toWrite. Shaping. Drafting. A New Historical Essay. Preparing to Write. Shaping. Drafting. Practicing Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies Cartoon, Rowland Wilson. Cartoon, Stan Hunt. 7. Minding the Work: Psychological Criticism. The Purpose of Psychological Criticism. How to Do Psychological Criticism. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, William Wordsworth. The Writing Process: A Sample Essay. From Hamlet, William Shakespeare. Preparing to Write. Shaping. Drafting. Practicing Psychological Criticism. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, Emily Dickinson. Questions. O to Be a Dragon, Marianne Moore. Questions. 8. Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory The Purpose of Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory How to Do Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory. From A Serious Proposal, Mary Astell. The Writing Process: A Sample Essay. To Miss_______ On Her Playing the Harpsichord, Samuel Johnson. Preparing to Respond. Shaping. Drafting. Revision: Gay and Lesbian Criticism. Practicing Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory Criticism Shall I Compare Thee, William Shakespeare. Questions. My Life had stood, Emily Dickinson. Questions. 9. Investigating the Work: Research and Documentation. The Purposes of Research Papers. The Topic and the Task. Finding and Using Resources: Internet, Database, Library. Background Sources. Bibliographies and Indexes. Searching On-line. Securing Resources, Taking Notes, Finding a Thesis. Drafting and Revising. The Writing Process: A Sample Research Paper. Getting Ideas. Organizing. Drafting. Appendix. The Canonization, John Donne. Credits. Index.

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