Analyzing Literature: A Guide for Students (Valuepack item only), 2nd Edition

By Sharon James McGee

ISBN-10: 0-321-09338-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-09338-7What's this?

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© 2002

Pub. Date: Sep 28, 2001

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Table of Contents

ANALYZING LITERATURE: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS

 

Looking at the Genre............................................................................. 1

 

Reading a Work of Literature................................................................ 3

 

   Going Online:  Using the OED.......................................................... 5

 

   Terms for Literary Analysis................................................................ 5

 

For Practice............................................................................................ 8

 

   “Yours” by Mary Robinson................................................................ 9

 

For Critical Inquiry.............................................................................. 11

 

Working Together................................................................................ 12

 

Looking at the Genre........................................................................... 12

 

Analysis............................................................................................... 25

 

For Critical Inquiry.............................................................................. 25

 

Writing About Literature..................................................................... 26

 

   Writing Assignment.......................................................................... 26

 

Invention.............................................................................................. 26

 

   Exploring Your Topic....................................................................... 26

 

   Activity 1.......................................................................................... 26

 

   Activity 2.......................................................................................... 27

 

   Cultural and Historical Perspectives................................................. 27

 

   Going Online: Resources on the Web............................................... 28

 

Planning............................................................................................... 29

 

   Developing a Claim.......................................................................... 29

 

   Activity 3.......................................................................................... 30

 

   Arranging Your Material.................................................................. 31

 

   Activity 4.......................................................................................... 32

 

   Activity 5.......................................................................................... 32

 

   Strategies for Organizing a Literary Analysis Essay........................ 33

 

   Activity 6.......................................................................................... 34

 

   Going Online: Carefully Choosing and Using Information............. 35

 

Working Draft..................................................................................... 35

 

   Paragraph Development.................................................................... 35

 

   Citing from Literary Texts................................................................ 36

 

Peer Commentary................................................................................ 40

 

Revising............................................................................................... 41

 

Connections and Coherence................................................................ 42

 

Writing Inventory................................................................................ 43

 

Writing a Literary Analysis Paper as an In-class Assignment............. 43

 

   Preparing to Write............................................................................. 44

 

   Writing Exam Answers..................................................................... 44

 

   Activity 7.......................................................................................... 45

 

   Writing a Good In-class Literary Analysis....................................... 46

 

   “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost............................................ 48

 

   “To Autumn” by John Keats............................................................ 49

 

   “Because I could not stop for Death–”  by Emily Dickinson......... 51

 

   Activity 8.......................................................................................... 52

 

   Looking at the Genre of In-class Literary Analysis.......................... 52

 

A Closing Note.................................................................................... 53

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