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Preface | |
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An Introduction, Theoretically | |
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Textual Tours | |
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Checking Some Baggage | |
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"Is there one correct interpretation of a literary work?" | |
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"So, are all opinions about literature equally valid?" | |
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Anything to Declare? | |
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Theory enables practice | |
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You already have a theoretical stance | |
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This is an introduction | |
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Here's the plan | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Critical Worlds: A Selective Tour | |
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Brendan Gill, from Here at "The New Yorker" | |
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New Criticism | |
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Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Structuralist and Deconstructive Criticism | |
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Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies | |
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Psychological Criticism | |
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Political Criticism | |
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Other Approaches | |
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Works Cited | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Unifying the Work: New Criticism | |
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The Purpose of New Criticism | |
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Basic Principles Reflected | |
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Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica | |
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Radicals in Tweed Jackets | |
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How to Do New Criticism | |
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Film and Other Genres | |
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The Writing Process: A Sample Essay | |
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Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother | |
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Preparing to Write | |
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Shaping | |
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Drafting | |
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Practicing New Criticism | |
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Lucille Clifton, forgiving my father | |
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Questions | |
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Stephen Shu-ning Liu, My Father's Martial Art | |
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Questions | |
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Ben Jonson, On My First Son | |
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Questions | |
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
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Questions | |
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Useful Terms for New Criticism | |
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Checklist for New Criticism | |
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Works Cited | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism | |
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The Purpose of Reader-Response Criticism | |
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New Criticism as the Old Criticism | |
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The Reader Emerges | |
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Hypertextual Readers | |
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How to Do Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Preparing to Respond | |
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Sandra Cisneros, Love Poem #1 | |
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Making Sense | |
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Subjective Response | |
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Receptive Response | |
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The Writing Process: A Sample Essay | |
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Preparing to Respond | |
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Ernest Hemingway, A Very Short Story | |
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Preparing to Write | |
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Shaping | |
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Drafting | |
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Practicing Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Michael Drayton, Since There's No Help | |
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Questions | |
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Judith Minty, Killing the Bear | |
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Questions | |
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Caroline Fraser, All Bears | |
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Questions | |
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Emily Dickinson, Through the Dark Sod | |
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Questions | |
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Useful Terms for Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Checklist: Using Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Works Cited | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Opening Up the Text: Structuralism and Deconstruction | |
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The Purposes of Structuralism and Deconstruction | |
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Structuralism and Semiotics | |
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Post-structuralism and Deconstruction | |
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How to Do Structuralism and Deconstruction | |
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William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium | |
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The Writing Process: A Sample Essay | |
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Amy Clampitt, Discovery | |
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Preparing to Write | |
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Shaping | |
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Drafting | |
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Practicing Structuralist and Deconstructive Criticism | |
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Questions | |
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William Blake, London | |
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Cut through the anxiety, the unknown, the hassle � | |
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Questions | |
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Linda Pastan, Ethics | |
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Questions | |
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John Donne, Death Be Not Proud | |
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Questions | |
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Useful Terms for Deconstruction | |
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Checklist for Deconstruction | |
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Works Cited | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Connecting the Text: Varieties of Historical Criticism | |
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The Purposes of Biographical, Historical, Postcolonial, Ethnic, Marxist, and Cultural Studies | |
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Biographical and Historical Criticism | |
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John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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Cultural Studies | |
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New Historicism | |
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History as Text | |
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Marxist Criticism | |
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Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies | |
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How to Do Historical Criticism | |
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The Writing Process: Sample Essays | |
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John Cheever, Reunion | |
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A Biographical Essay | |
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Preparing to Write | |
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Shaping | |
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Drafting | |
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A New Historical Essay | |
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Preparing to Write | |
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Shaping | |
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Drafting | |
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Practicing Historical Criticism | |
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Useful Terms for Historical, Cultural, and Postcolonial Criticism | |
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Checklist for Historical Criticism | |
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Works Cited | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Minding the Work: Psychological Criticism | |
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The Purpose of Psychological Criticism | |
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How to Do Psychological Criticism | |
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William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal | |
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The Writing Process: A Sample Essay | |
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet 4.4.32-66 | |
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Preparing to Write | |
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Shaping | |
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Drafting | |
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Practicing Psychological Criticism | |
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Emily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | |
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Questions | |
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Marianne Moore, O to Be a Dragon | |
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Questions | |
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Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach | |
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Question | |
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Your Dream Here | |
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Useful Terms for Psychological Criticism | |
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Checklist for Psychological Criticism | |
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Works Cited | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism, Postfeminism, and Queer Theory | |
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How to Do Feminist Criticism, Postfeminism, and Queer Theory | |
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Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal | |
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The Writing Process: A Sample Essay | |
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Samuel Johnson, To Miss _____ On Her Playing upon the Harpsichord � | |
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Preparing to Respond | |
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Shaping | |
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Drafting | |
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Revision: Gay and Lesbian Criticism | |
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Practicing Feminist, Postfeminist, and Queer Theory Criticism | |
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William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? | |
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Questions | |
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Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun | |
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Questions | |
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Tobias Wolff, Say Yes | |
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Questions | |
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Gender in the Movies | |
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Useful Terms for Political Criticism | |
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Checklist for Political Criticism | |
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Works Cited | |
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Recommended Further Reading | |
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Appendix 1 | |
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The Canonization | |
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Appendix 2 | |
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A Note on How Theories Relate | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |