Writing About Literature: A Guide for the Student Critic

ISBN-13: 9781551117430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str.

W. F. Garrett-Petts

Opis

W.F. Garrett-Petts's respected "insider's guide" to writing like a literary critic now includes a new chapter on writing about poetry.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition—to the Instructor

• Initiating Students into Literary Study
  A Brief History of English Studies
  This Book’s Form and Philosophy

Preface to the Second Edition—to the Student: An Introduction to the Critical Conversation

• What Is Academic Discourse?
  A Method for Learning Academic Discourse
  How to Use This Book

CHAPTER 1

Getting Started: From Personal Response to Field Stance

• Overview
  Writing Is Rhetorical
  Documenting Your Personal Response
  How to Use Your Personal Response
  Box 1.1: Field Notes from Critical Theory andPsycholinguistics: “How We Read”
  Becoming a Literacy Researcher
  New Contexts for Reading and Writing
• The Social Stance
  The Institutional Stance
  The Textual Stance
• Box 1.2: Field Notes from Composition Studies: The Five-Paragraph Theme
• The Field Stance
• Summary: Why It Is so Important to Become Aware of All Four Stances
  Box 1.3: Field Notes from Linguistics: The Effect of Context on Reading
  An Interview with a Literary Critic
  Exercises

CHAPTER 2

Reading and Responding to Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comesto Yellow Sky”

• Overview
  Response Notes
  The Critical Conversation
  Box 2.1: Field Notes from Literary Criticism: How Readers Have Responded to Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
  “Fielding” Some Questions
  Exercises

CHAPTER 3

Writing the Critical Essay: Form and the Critical Process

• Overview
  Form
  Box 3.1: Field Notes from the Visual Arts: Visual Mapping Exercises
  How to Move from an “F” to an “A”: Modelling the Process
• Writing and Rewriting
  Commentary
• The Six Common Places of Literary Criticism
• Contemptus Mundi and Complexity
  Appearance/Reality
  Everywhereness
  Paradigm
  Paradox
• Critical Approaches
• Formalism: New Criticism and Deconstruction
  Reader-Response Criticism
  Cultural Criticism
• Finding a Place for Your Interpretation in the CriticalConversation
  Exercises

CHAPTER 4

Model Essays

• Student Essays
• Michelle Demers
  Ryan Miller
  Lydia Marston
• Professional Essays
• Alice Farley
  Katherine Sutherland
  Harold H. Kolb, Jr.
• Exercises

CHAPTER 5

Reading and Writing about Poetry

• Overview
  Some Opening Thoughts about Poetry
• “Poetry Should Not Mean / But Be”
• Reading a Poem
• “This Part of the Country”
  Entering into the Poem
• An Interview with a Poet
  Exercises
  A Critical Tool Kit for Writing about Poetry
• Caedmon’s Hymn
  Box 5.1: Field Notes from a Literary Critic: Anglo-SaxonAccentual Meter
  
• Re-entering into the Poem
• Parts of a Poem
  Types of Feet
  Types of Rhythm
  Types of Rhyme
  Types of Poetic Device
• Integrating Quotations
  How to Move from an “F” to an “A”: Modelling theProcess
• Commentary
• Box 5.2: Field Notes from a Writing Teacher: Thirteen Ways ofThinking about a Poem
  Complete Texts for the Poems Referenced in This Chapter
• “Sonnet 116”
  “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
  “On His Blindness”
  “To His Coy Mistress”
  “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
  “My Last Duchess”
  “Come Down, O Maid”
  “O Captain! My Captain!”

CHAPTER 6

Some Final Words on Writing about Literature

• Four Critics Speak on Their Personal Approaches to Critical Writing
• Alice Farley
  Katherine Sutherland
  Michael Jarrett
  Helen Gilbert

Appendix: Language Use in English Studies

Resources for Further Study

Works Cited

Index