Literature Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies

Name: Literature Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies
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ISBN: 9780321113498

ISBN-10: 0321113497

ISBN-13: 9780321113498

Edition: 2004

Authors: Steven Lynn

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Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies energizes literary study by showing students how to use critical approaches to engage literary texts and evolve critical arguments. Lynn's truly innovative text shows students how to use critical strategies to engage with literary texts and develop critical arguments. Plentiful examples demonstrate the process of writing about literatureprogressing from a blank page to an insightful response and ultimately to a final essayusing a variety of theories as invention strategies. A richly diverse selection of literary works provides students with thematicallytied materials to read and write about fiction, poetry, and drama. Nancy Kennedy…

Book details

List price: $122.67
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Critical Theories: Checklists (inside front cover)


Preface for Instructors


Letter to Students



The Possibilities of Literary Meaning


"Did I Miss Anything?"




Reading: How Meaning Is Made


Who Makes Meaning?


"Jabberwocky."



Are Some Readings Wrong?


Suggestions for Readings


Your Right to Read and Write


The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution



Writing: How Invention Strategies Shape the Process


Here at the New Yorker



New Criticism


Reader-Response Criticism


Deconstructive Criticism


Biographical, Historical, and New Historical Criticism


Psychological Criticism


Feminist Criticism


Other Critical Strategies



Literature: Why It Matters


What Isn't Literature?


What Is Literature?


"It Bids Pretty Fair."




Critical Strategies at Work



Read Poetry Creatively: Reader-Response Criticism


Reflection: The Creative Reader


"This is a Wonderful Poem."



Strategies: Using Reader-Response Criticism


"The Sand Merchant's Wife."



Inventing, Shaping, Drafting: Student Examples


Elements: Symbol, Image, Personification, Allegory, Allusion


"Supernatural Love."



Duchess of Newcastle, "Earth's Complaint."



Practice: Environments


"The Garden."



"For Anna Mae Aquash Whose Spirit Is Present."



"All Bears."



["Through the Dark Sod"]



"Carmel Point."



Suggestions for Writing



Read Poetry Closely: New Criticism


Reflection: The Organic Text


"Ars Poetica."


Strategies: Using New Criticism



"The Mother."


Inventing, Shaping, Drafting: Student Example



"forgiving my father."