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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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| Anything to Declare? | |
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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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| Ben Jonson, On My First Son | |
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| Questions | |
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| Useful Terms 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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| Caroline Fraser, All Bears | |
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| Questions | |
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| Useful Terms for 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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| USC Continuing Education, Cut Through the Anxiety... | |
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| William Blake, London | |
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| Linda Pastan, Ethics | |
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| Questions | |
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| Useful Terms for Deconstruction | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Recommended Further Reading | |
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| Connecting the Text: Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies | |
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| The Purposes of Historical, Postcolonial, 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 Studies | |
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| How to Do Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies | |
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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, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies | |
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| Rowland Wilson, Cartoon | |
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| Useful Sources and Terms for Historical, Cultural, and Postcolonial Criticism | |
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| Stan Hunt, Cartoon | |
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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, from Hamlet | |
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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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| Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach | |
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| Useful Terms 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, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory | |
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| How to Do Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, 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 Harsichord... | |
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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, Post-Feminist, and Queer Theory Criticism | |
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| William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee... | |
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| Questions | |
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| Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood... | |
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| Tobias Wolff, Say Yes | |
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| Useful Terms for Political Criticism | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Recommended Further Reading | |
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| Investigating the Work: Research and Documentation | |
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| The Purposes of Research | |
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| How to Do Research | |
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| The Topic and the Task | |
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| Finding and Using Resources | |
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| Background Sources | |
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| Bibliographies, Indexes, Catalogs | |
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| Online Sources, Ethics, Plagiarism | |
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| The Writing Process: A Sample Research Paper | |
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| Getting Ideas | |
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| Organizing | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Recommended Further Readings | |
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| Appendix | |
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| John Donne, The Canonization | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |