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PREFACE LETTER TO STUDENTS PART 1 Jumping In 1--WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE: CRASH COURSE Pleasures of Reading--and of Writing about Literature Open Secret of Good Writing Writing Process Checklist of the Basics 2--THE WRITER AS READER: READING AND RESPONDING Kate Chopin, Ripe Figs Act of Reading Reading with a Pen in Hand Recording Your First Responses Audience and Purpose Writing Assignment on Ripe Figs Assignment Sample Essay: Images of Ripening in Kate Chopin's 'Ripe Figs' Student's Analysis Analyzed Critical Thinking and the Study of Literature 3--THE READER AS WRITER: DRAFTING AND WRITING Pre-writing: Getting Ideas Annotating a Text More about Getting Ideas: Second Story by Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing Focused Free Writing Listing Asking Questions Keeping a Journal Critical Thinking: Arguing with Yourself Arriving at a Thesis and Arguing It Writing a Draft Sample Draft: Ironies in an Hour Revising a Draft Checklist for Revising for Clarity Ways of Outlining a Draft Checklist for Reviewing a Revised Draft Peer Review Final Version Sample Essay: Ironies of in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' Analysis Analyzed Quick Review: From First Response to Final Version: Writing an Essay about a Literary Work 4--TWO FORMS OF CRITICISM: EXPLICATION AND ANALYSIS Explication Sample Explication: Hughes's Harlem Working toward an Explication of Harlem Some Journal Entries Final Draft: Langston Hughes's 'Harlem' Analysis Analyzed Checklist: Drafting an Explication Analysis: Judgment of Solomon Thinking about Form Thinking about Character Thoughts about Other Possibilities For Further reading and Analysis: Parable of the Prodigal Son NEW Comparison: Analytic Tool Checklist: Revising a Comparison For Further Reading and Comparison: Gwendolyn Brooks's Real Cool NEW Finding a Topic Considering the Evidence Organizing the Material Communicating Judgments Review: How to Write an Effective Essay 1. Pre-writing 2. Drafting 3. Revising 4. Editing Editing Checklist: Questions to Ask Yourself Editing For Further Reading, Explication, and Comparison: William Blake's The Tyger NEW 5--OTHER KINDS OF WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Summary Paraphrase Review Review of a Dramatic Production Sample Review: An Effective Macbeth PART 2 Standing Back: Thinking Critically about Literature 6--LITERATURE, FORM, AND MEANING Literature and Form Literature and Meaning Arguing about Meaning Form and Meaning Robert Frost, The Span of Life Literature, Texts, Discourses, and Cultural Studies Suggestions for Further Reading 7--WHAT IS INTERPRETATION? Interpretation and Meaning Is the Author's Intention a Guide to Meaning? Features of a Good Interpretation Example: Interpreting Pat Mora's Immigrants Thinking Critically about Literature Student Interpretation of Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Sample Essay: Stopping by Woods and Going For Further Interpretation, Comparison, and Writing: Robert Frost's The Not Taken NEW Suggestions for Further Reading Checklist: Writing an Interpretation NEW 8--WHAT IS EVALUATION? Criticism and Evaluation Are There Critical Standards? Morality and Truth as Standards Other Ways to Think about Truth and Realism Suggestions for Further Reading 9--WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE: AN OVERVIEW Nature of Critical Writing Some Critical Approaches Formalist Criticism (New Criticism) Deconstruction Reader-Response Criticism Archetypal (or Myth) Criticism Historical Criticism Marxist Criticism New Historicism Biographical Criticism Psychological (or Psychoanalytic) Criticism Gender (Feminist, and Lesbian and Gay) Criticism Suggestions for Further Reading PART 3 Up Close: Thinking Critically about Literary Forms 10--WRITING ABOUT FICTION: THE WORLD OF THE STORY Plot and Character Writing about a Character Sample Essay on a Character: Holden's Kid Sister Analysis Analyzed Foreshadowing Organizing an Essay on Foreshadowing Setting and Atmosphere Symbolism Sample Essay on Setting as Symbol: Spring Comes to Mrs. Mallard Spring Comes to Mrs. Mallard Point of View Third-Person Narrators First-Person Narrators Notes and a Sample Essay on Narrative Point of View in James Joyce's Araby The Three First-Person Narrators of Joyce's 'Araby' Analysis Analyzed Theme: Vision or Argument? Determining and Discussing the Theme Preliminary Notes and a Sample Essay on the Theme of Eudora Welty's A Worn Path Preliminary Notes Rising into Love (essay on A Worn Path) Brief Overview of the Essay Checklist: Writing about Theme NEW Basing the Paper on Your Own Responses Note on Secondary Sources Second Essay about Theme: Notes and the Final Version of an Essay on Shirley Jackson's The Lottery We All Participate in 'The Lottery' Analysis Analyzed Suggestions for Further Reading Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Fiction Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about a Film Based on a Work of Literature 11--GRAPHIC FICTION NEW Letters and Pictures Grant Wood's on the Ridge Road (painting) Topic for Writing Reading an Image: Short Story Told in One Panel Tony Carillo's F Minus 12--WRITING ABOUT DRAMA Sample Essay Preliminary Notes The Solid Structure of Glass Menagerie Types of Plays Tragedy Checklist: Writing about Tragedy Comedy Writing about Comedy Checklist: Writing about Comedy Aspects of Drama Theme Plot Checklist: Writing about Plot Characterization and Motivation Conventions Costumes, Gestures, and Settings Sample Essay on Setting in Drama What the Kitchen in Trifles Tells Us Analysis Analyzed Suggestions for Further Reading Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Drama Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about a Film Based on a Play Student's Essay on a Filmed Version of a Play Branagh's Film of Hamlet Checklist: Topics for Critical Thinking and Writing 13--WRITING ABOUT POETRY Speaker and the Poet Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights--Wild Nights Language of Poetry: Diction and Tone Edna St. Vincent Millay, I, being born a woman and distressed Writing about the Speaker: Robert Frost's The Telephone Robert Frost, The Telephone Journal Entries Figurative Language John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Preparing to Write about Figurative Language Imagery and Symbolism William Blake, The Sick Rose Structure Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes Annotating and Thinking about a Poem Student's Finished Essay: Herrick's Julia, Julia's Herrick Some Kinds of Structure Repetitive Structure William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Logical Structure John Donne, The Flea Verbal Irony Paradox Explication Sample Explication of Yeats's The Balloon of the Mind William Butler Yeats, The Balloon of the Mind Rhythm and Versification: Glossary for Reference Rhythm Meter Patterns of Stanzaic Patterns Blank Verse and Free Verse Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Preparing to Write about Prosody Sample Essay on Metrics: Sound and Sense in A. E. Housman's 'Eight Sound and Sense in A. E. Housman's 'Eight O'Clock' Analysis Analyzed Suggestions for Further Reading Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Poetry 14--POEMS AND PICTURES NEW Poem and a Sample Student Essay Vincent van Gogn, The Starry Night (painting) Anne Sexton, The Starry Night Sample Essay: Two Ways of Looking at a Starry Night Language of Pictures Writing about Pictures Comparing and Contrasting William Notman, Foes in '76, Friends in '85 (photograph) Analyzing and Evaluating Evidence Thinking Critically: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions, and Comparing--E.E. Cummings's Bill's Writing Assignment: Connecting a Picture with a Work of Literature Sample essay: Two Views of Buffalo Bill 15--WRITING ABOUT AN AUTHOR IN DEPTH Case Study: Writing about Hughes, The South Hughes, Ruby Brown Hughes, Ballad of the Landlord Sample essay: A National Problem: Race and Racism in the Poetry of Hughes Brief Overview of the Essay PART 4 Inside: Style, Format, and Special Assignments 16--STYLE AND FORMAT Principles of Style Get the Right Word Write Effective Sentences Checklist for Revising for Conciseness Write Unified and Coherent Paragraphs Checklist: Revising Paragraphs Write Emphatically Notes on the Dash and the Hyphen Remarks about Manuscript Form Basic Manuscript Form Quotations and Quotation Marks 17--WRITING RESEARCH PAPER What Research Is Not, and What Research Is Primary and Secondary Materials Locating Material: First Steps Other Bibliographic Aids Basics Moving Ahead: Finding Sources for Research Work What Does Your Own Institution Offer? Taking Notes Incorporating Your Reading into Your Thinking: Art and Science of Synthesis NEW Drafting Your Paper Focus on Primary Sources Documentation What to Document: Avoiding Plagiarism Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism How to Document: Footnotes, Internal Parenthetical Citations, and a List of Works Cited (MLA Format) Sample Essay with Documentation: The Women in Death of a Salesman Checklist: Reading the Draft of a Research Paper Electronic Sources Encyclopedias: Print and Electronic Versions Internet/World Wide Web Evaluating Sources on the World Wide Web Checklist: Review for Using the World Wide Web Documentation: Citing a Web Source Checklist: Citing World Wide Web Sources APPENDIX A: TWO STORIES James Joyce, Araby Eudora Welty, A Worn Path APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS APPENDIX C: HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CITING SOURCES? QUIZ WITH ANSWERS CREDITS INDEX OF AUTHORS, TITLES, AND FIRST LINES OF POEMS INDEX OF TERMS
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