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Reading and Viewing Play in Its Elements | |
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A Conversation on Reading Drama with Marian Seldes, a video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
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A First Reading | |
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Susan Glaspell, Trifles | |
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Going Deeper into Drama | |
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a sample student response: James Ness, "Trifles: Song and Stillness" | |
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Types of Drama | |
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Tragedy | |
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Comedy | |
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Julianne Homokay, The Wedding Story | |
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Going Further: An Interactive Reading | |
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An Interactive Reading from Edward Albee, The Zoo Story | |
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A Conversation on Writing with Edward Albee, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
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Edward Albee, The Zoo Story | |
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Brooks Atkinson | |
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The New York Times review of the opening in America of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Writing About Drama | |
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A Conversation on Writing with Edwin Wilson, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
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a sample student essay in progress | |
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student paper: Jim Hanks, "Caged or Free? Animals as Metaphor in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story " | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Ancient Greek Drama | |
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A Case Study on Sophocles | |
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A Conversation on Sophocles with Gregory Nagy, video interview available online@ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
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The Oedipus Story | |
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Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, translated by Robert Fitzgerald | |
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Greek Tragedy | |
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A Checklist: Reading Greek Tragedy | |
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Getting Started: A Research Project | |
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Further Suggestions for Writing and Research | |
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Some Sources for Research | |
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William Shakespeare | |
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A Conversation on Shakespeare with Ralph Williams, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
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Hamlet | |
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The Elizabethan Theater | |
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Language On Stage | |
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Shakespeare's Confounding Diversity | |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream | |
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Othello | |
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A Checklist: Reading William Shakespeare | |
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Getting Started: A Research Project | |
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Further Suggestions for Writing and Research | |
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Some Sources for Research | |
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Modern Drama | |
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A Conversation on Writing with Arthur Miller, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
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Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman | |
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From the Palace to the Living Room, or, The Origins of Modern Theater | |
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Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp | |
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The Real and Surreal | |
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Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie | |
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The Bard of Pittsburgh | |
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August Wilson, Fences | |
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An Actor's Perspective on Modern Theater and August Wilson | |
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A Glimpse at the Work of Ruben Santiago-Hudson | |
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A Conversation on Writing with Ruben Santiago-Hudson, video interview available online @ xxx | |
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson, stills from Lackawanna Blues | |
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Reading Modern Drama | |
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Suggestions for Writing about Modern Drama | |
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Contemporary Theater | |
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A Conversation on Writing with Arthur Kopit, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
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Arthur Kopit, Wings | |
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Experimental Theater | |
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Joan Ackermann, The Second Beam | |
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David Henry Hwang, The Dance and the Railroad | |
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David Ives, Moby Dude, OR: The Three-Minute Whale | |
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Denise Chavez, Guadalupe X Three | |
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Getting Started: A Research Project | |
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Suggestions for Writing about Contemporary Theater | |
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A Handbook for Writing from Reading | |
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Critical Approaches to Literature | |
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Formalist Criticism | |
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The Theory of the Formal Method | |
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Biographical Criticism | |
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Dickinson’s Literary Background | |
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Historical Criticism | |
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Mark Twain | |
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Psychological or Psychoanalytic Criticism | |
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The Poetic Process | |
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Archetypal, Mythic, or Mythological Criticism | |
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The Archetypes of Literature | |
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Marxist or Economic Determinist Criticism | |
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Literature and Revolution | |
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Structuralist Criticism | |
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Fairy Tale Transformations | |
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New Historicism | |
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The Introduction to the Power of Forms in the English Renaissance | |
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Feminist Criticism and Gay and Lesbian Studies | |
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Introduction to On the Politics of Literature | |
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Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Interplay between Text and Reader | |
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Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction | |
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Death of the Author | |
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Cultural Studies | |
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Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Postculturalism | |
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Ethnic Studies and Post-Colonial Studies | |
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars | |
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Writing from Reading | |
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Why Read Literature? | |
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Why Write from Reading? | |
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Reading to Write | |
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From Summary to Interpretation | |
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Developing an Argument | |
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Developing an Argument for Robert Pinsky’s “Shirt” | |
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Forming a Defendable Thesis | |
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Creating a Plan | |
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Drafting Your Paper | |
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Revising Your Draft | |
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Sample Revised Introductory, Body, and Conclusion Paragraphs | |
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Revised Draft of a Student’s Research Paper on Langston Hughes | |
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A Final Note on Editing and Formatting Your Paper | |
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Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Types of Information Requiring Documentation | |
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Common Knowledge | |
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Use Sources to Support Your Commentary | |
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Acknowledge Your Sources | |
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Format Quotations to Avoid Plagiarism | |
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Format Paraphrases to Avoid Plagiarism | |
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Format Summary to Avoid Plagiarism | |
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Common Writing Assignements | |
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Writing in a Digital Age | |
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Writing across the Curriculum | |
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Summary | |
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A Sample Precis of Herman Melville’s Short Story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” | |
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Analysis | |
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A Sample Explication of William Blake’s Poem “Garden of Love” | |
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A Sample Card Report | |
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Synthesis | |
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A Sample Comparison-Contrast Paper on “The Role of Grendel in Beowulf the Epic and the Movie” | |
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Critique | |
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The Essay Exam | |
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Writing the Research Paper, avoiding plagiarism, and Documenting Sources | |
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Understanding Research Today | |
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Choosing a Topic | |
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Finding and Managing Print and Online Sources | |
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Finding Visual Sources | |
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Evaluating Print and Online Sources | |
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Developing a Thesis and Organizing the Paper | |
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Revising | |
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Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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A Student’s Research Paper on Langston Hughes and Jazz Poetry | |
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MLA Documentation Style Guide | |
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Documenting Sources using MLA Style | |
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MLA Style: In-Text Citations | |
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MLA Style: List of Works Cited | |
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Glossary of Terms | |
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Credits | |
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Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry | |
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Directory for MLA Documentation Style Guide: Inside Back Cover | |