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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to Reading and Writing About Literature | |
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| Why Read Literature? | |
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| Why Write about Literature? | |
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| What to Expect in a Literature Class | |
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| Literature and Enjoyment | |
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| The Role of Good Reading | |
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| The Value of Rereading | |
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| Critical Reading | |
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| The Myth of "Hidden Meaning" | |
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| Active Reading | |
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| Annotating | |
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| "Because I could not stop for Death" (Annotated Poem) | |
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| Note Taking | |
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| Journal Keeping | |
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| Using Reference Materials | |
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| Asking Critical Questions of Literature | |
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| Questions about the Text | |
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| "On My First Son" (Annotated Poem) | |
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| Questions about the Author | |
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| Questions about the Cultural Context | |
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| Questions about the Reader | |
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| Checklist for Good Reading | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Developing an Argument | |
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| The Thesis | |
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| Gathering Support for Your Thesis | |
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| Organizing Your Paper | |
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| Drafting the Paper | |
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| Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Global Revision | |
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| Global Revision Checklist | |
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| Local Revision | |
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| Local Revision Checklist | |
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| Final Editing and Proofreading | |
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| Final Editing Checklist | |
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| Peer Editing and Workshops | |
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| Tips for Writing about Literature | |
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| Using Quotations Effectively | |
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| Adding to or Altering a Quotation | |
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| Omitting Words from a Quotation | |
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| Quotations within Quotations | |
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| Quotation Marks with Other Punctuation | |
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| Quoting from Stories | |
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| Quoting from Poems | |
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| Quoting from Plays | |
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| Manuscript Form | |
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| Common Writing Assignments | |
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| Summary | |
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| Response | |
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| "Girl" | |
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| "A Boy's View of 'Girl'" | |
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| Explication | |
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| "Upon Julia's Clothes" | |
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| "Poetry in Motion: Herrick's 'Upon Julia's Clothes'" | |
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| Analysis | |
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| "My Last Duchess " | |
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| "Possessed by the Need for Possession: Browning's 'My Last Duchess'" | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| "After Death" | |
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| "Speakers for the Dead: Narrators in 'My Last Duchess' and After Death'" | |
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| Essay Exams | |
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| Sonnet 73 | |
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| "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | |
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| Midterm Essay | |
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| Writing about Stories | |
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| Elements of Fiction | |
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| Plot | |
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| Character | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Setting | |
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| Theme | |
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| Symbolism | |
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| Style | |
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| Stories for Analysis | |
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| "The Yellow Wallpaper" | |
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| "The Story of an Hour" (Annotated Story) | |
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| Questions on the Stories | |
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| Sample Paper: An Essay That Compares and Contrasts | |
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| Melanie Smith, "Good Husbands in Bad Marriages" | |
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| Writing About Poems | |
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| Elements of Poetry | |
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| The Speaker | |
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| The Listener | |
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| Imagery | |
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| Sound and Sense | |
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| Two Poems for Analysis | |
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| "Sonnet 116" (Annotated Poem) | |
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| Questions on the Poem | |
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| "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Annotated Poem) | |
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| Questions on the Poem | |
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| Sample Paper: An Explication | |
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| "Shakespeare Defines Love" | |
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| Writing About Plays | |
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| Elements of Drama | |
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| Plot, Character, and Theme | |
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| Diction | |
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| Melody and Spectacle | |
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| Setting | |
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| How to Read a Play | |
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| Director's Questions for Play Analysis | |
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| "Trifles" | |
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| Sample Paper: An Analysis | |
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| "Moral Ambiguity and Character Development in Trifles | |
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| Writing a Literary Research Paper | |
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| Finding Sources | |
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| Online Indexes | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| Books | |
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| Interlibrary Loan | |
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| The Internet | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Working with Sources | |
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| Quotations | |
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| Paraphrases and Summaries | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| Keeping Track of Your Sources | |
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| Writing the Paper | |
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| Refine Your Thesis | |
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| Organize Your Evidence | |
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| Start Your Draft | |
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| Revise | |
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| Edit and Proofread | |
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| Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| What to Document and What Not to Document | |
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| Documenting Sources: MLA Format | |
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| In-Text Citations | |
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| Preparing Your Works Cited List | |
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| Sample Research Paper | |
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| "Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death': Challenging Readers' Expectations" | |
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| Literary Criticism and Literary Theory | |
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| Formalism and New Criticism | |
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| Feminist and Gender Criticism | |
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| Queer Theory | |
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| Marxist Criticism | |
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| Cultural Studies | |
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| Postcolonial Criticism | |
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| Historical Criticism and New Historicism | |
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| Psychological Theories | |
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| Reader-Response Theories | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Poststructuralism and Deconstruction | |
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| Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms | |
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| Index of Terms | |