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Acknowledgments | |
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To the Student: An Introduction to Theory into Practice | |
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Works Analyzed in the Text | |
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The Relationship of Reading and Writing | |
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Reading and Writing in College | |
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Engaging the Text | |
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Adding Marginal Notations | |
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Keeping a Reading Log | |
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Using Heuristics | |
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Shaping a Response | |
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Determining a Purpose | |
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Answering Essay Questions | |
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Writing Research Papers | |
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Knowing Your Audience | |
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Choosing a Voice | |
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Helping the Process | |
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Collaboration | |
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Reference Materials | |
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Summing Up | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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General Information Sites | |
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Literary Criticism Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Familiar Approaches | |
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Conventional Ways of Reading Literature | |
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A Social Perspective | |
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The Effects of Genre | |
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Conventional Ways of Writing about Literature | |
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Explication | |
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Analysis | |
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Comparison and Contrast | |
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Study of a Single Author's Works | |
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Summing Up | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Model Student Analyses | |
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"A Look at the Background of Kate Chopin's 'Desiree's Baby': A Biographical Study," | |
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"Good versus Evil in Kate Chopin's 'Desiree's Baby': A Comparative Study," | |
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Formalism | |
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Historical Background | |
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Reading as a Formalist | |
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Form | |
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Diction | |
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Unity | |
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What Doesn't Appear in Formalist Criticism | |
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Paraphrase | |
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Intention | |
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Biography | |
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Affect | |
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Writing a Formalist Analysis | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in Formalist Criticism | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analysis | |
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"Robinson's 'Richard Cory': A Formalistic Interpretation," | |
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Psychological Criticism | |
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Historical Background | |
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Practicing Psychological Criticism | |
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Freudian Principles | |
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The Unconscious | |
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The Tripartite Psyche | |
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The Significance of Sexuality | |
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The Importance of Dreams | |
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Symbols | |
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Creativity | |
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Summing Up | |
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Carl Jung and Mythological Criticism | |
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Characters | |
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Images | |
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Situations | |
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Northrup Frye and Mythological Criticism | |
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Jacques Lacan: An Update on Freud | |
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Writing Psychological Criticism | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in Psychological Criticism | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analyses | |
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"Psychological Complexity in Sherwood Anderson's 'The Egg': A Freudian Analysis," | |
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"Water, Sun, Moon, Stars, Heroic Spirit, in Tennyson's 'Ulysses': A Mythological Analysis," | |
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Marxist Criticism | |
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Historical Background | |
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Reading from a Marxist Perspective | |
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Economic Power | |
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Materialism versus Spirituality | |
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Class Conflict | |
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Art, Literature, and Ideologies | |
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Writing a Marxist Analysis | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in Marxist Criticism | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analysis | |
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"Marxist Criticism of Frank Norris's 'A Deal in Wheat,'" | |
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Feminist Criticism | |
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Historical Background | |
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Reading as a Feminist | |
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Studies of Difference | |
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Studies of Power | |
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Studies of the Female Experience | |
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Writing Feminist Criticism | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in Feminist Criticism | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analysis | |
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"The Masculine Sex-Parasite in Edith Wharton's 'The Other Two,'" | |
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Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Historical Background | |
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Making a Reader's Response | |
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Getting Started | |
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Interacting with the Text | |
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The Power of the Text | |
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The Reader as Producer of the Text | |
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The Reader and the Text as Coproducers | |
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Period Responses, The Receptionists | |
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Writing a Reader-Response Analysis | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in Reader-Response Criticism | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analysis | |
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"Eudora Welty's Portrayal of the American Nightmare: A Formalist Analysis of 'Death of a Traveling Salesman,'" | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Historical Background | |
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Practicing Deconstruction | |
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Making a Deconstructive Analysis | |
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Writing a Deconstructive Analysis | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in Understanding Deconstruction | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analysis | |
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"Who Wants a Doughnut without a Hole? Deconstructive Criticism and the Failure of Meaning in Bobbie Ann Mason's 'Shiloh,'" | |
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Cultural Studies: New Historicism | |
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An Overview of Cultural Studies | |
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Assumptions, Principles, and Goals of New Historicism | |
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Traditional Historicism | |
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New Historicism | |
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New Literary Historicism | |
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Historical Background | |
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Reading as a New Historicist | |
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The World of the Author and the Text | |
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Discourses in the Text | |
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Intentions and Reception | |
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Writing a New Historicist Literary Analysis | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in New Historicist Criticism | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analysis | |
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"Clothes as Power in Elizabethan England: A New Historicist Criticism of John Donne's 'To His Mistress Going to Bed,'" | |
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More Cultural Studies: Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism | |
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Postcolonialism | |
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Historical Background | |
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Basic Assumptions | |
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Reading as a Postcolonialist | |
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Presentation of Colonialism | |
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Treatment of Characters | |
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Validity of the Narrative | |
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Expressions of Nativism (Nationalism) | |
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Recurring Subjects and Themes | |
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Context | |
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Minor Characters | |
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Political Statement and Innuendo | |
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Similarities | |
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Glossary of Terms Useful in Postcolonial Studies | |
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American Multiculturalism | |
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African-American Literature | |
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Reading as a Multiculturalist | |
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Narrative Forms | |
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Diction | |
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Style | |
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Writing a Cultural Studies Analysis | |
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Recommended Web Sites | |
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Suggested Reading | |
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Model Student Analyses | |
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"Representations of Cultural Others in Angela Carter's 'The Tiger's Bride,'" | |
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"Writing and Staging the White Man's Blues: An Analysis of James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie," | |
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Literary Selections | |
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"Barn Burning" | |
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"Araby" | |
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"Young Goodman Brown" | |
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"The Diamond Necklace" | |
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Letters of Abigail and John Adams | |
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"The Masque of the Red Death" | |
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | |
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"The Sky Is Gray" | |
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excerpt from The Road from Coorain | |
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excerpt from The Eatonville Anthology | |
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Information at a Glance | |
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Purposes and Assumptions | |
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Strategies, Strengths, and Weaknesses | |
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Index | |