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Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature
This text offers instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing, critical thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and proper documentation through the study of literary works from major genres, while developing students’ close reading skills and promoting an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of literature.
- Tác giả
- Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap
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- Open Educational Resources Initiative
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- CC BY-NC
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- Tiếng Anh
Mục lục· 156 mục
- 01: Introduction
- 1.01: What is Literature
- 1.02: Why Read and Write About Literature
- 1.03: What is Literary Analysis
- 1.04: Language Misconceptions and Authorial Intention in Literature
- 1.05: Inferences in Literature
- 1.06: The Rough Guide to Literary Style a Historical Overview
- 1.07: Discussion Activity - What is Literature To You
- 1.08: The Literary Landscape- Four Major Genres
- 02: About Creative Nonfiction
- 2.01: What is Creative Nonfiction
- 2.02: Elements of Creative Nonfiction
- 2.03: How to Read Creative Nonfiction
- 2.04: Featured Creative Nonfiction Author- Frederick Douglass
- 2.05: Creative Nonfiction Reading Discussion Questions
- 2.06: Descriptive Imagery Worksheets
- 2.07: The Personal Narrative Essay
- 03: Creative Nonfiction Readings
- 3.01: Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi The Danger of a Single Story (2009)
- 3.02: Anderson Karen Six Short Essays (2017)
- 3.03: Bierce Ambrose What I Saw of Shiloh (1881)
- 3.04: Cantu Francisco Bajadas (2015)
- 3.05: Douglass Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
- 3.06: DuBois W.E.B. Of Our Spiritual Strivings from The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
- 3.07: Oomen Anne-Marie The Blue (2018)
- 3.08: Plato The Allegory of the Cave excerpt from The Republic (360 BC)
- 3.09: Sun Tzu. The Art of War (5th Century B.C.)
- 3.10: Swift Jonathan. A Modest Proposal. (1729)
- 3.11: Wordsworth Dorothy Daffodils entry from Grasmere journal (1802)
- 04: About Fiction - Short Stories and the Novel
- 4.01: What is Fiction
- 4.02: Short Stories versus the Novel
- 4.03: Types of Novels
- 4.04: How to Read Fiction
- 4.05: How to Analyze Fiction - Elements of Literature
- 4.06: Character
- 4.07: Plot
- 4.08: Setting
- 4.09: Narration Point of View Dialogue
- 4.10: Word Choice Tone Voice and Style
- 4.11: Rhetorical and Literary Devices
- 4.12: Theme
- 4.13: A Review and Questions
- 4.14: Match and Learn Quiz
- 05: Fiction Readings
- 5.01: Bierce Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
- 5.02: Chopin Kate The Story of an Hour (1894)
- 5.03: Gilman Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
- 5.04: Hawthorne Nathaniel The Birthmark (1846)
- 5.05: Irving Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
- 5.06: Melville Herman. Bartleby The Scrivener (1853)
- 5.07: Moore Alice Ruth Violets (1895)
- 5.08: Poe Edgar Allan The Purloined Letter (1844)
- 5.09: Wilde Oscar The Nightingale and the Rose (1888)
- 5.10: Woolf Virginia Kew Gardens (1921)
- 5.11: Cather Willa. On the Gull's Road (1908)
- 5.12: Davis Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron-Mills (1861)
- 5.13: Ray Bradburys The Veldt
- 5.14: A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
- 5.15: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People
- 5.16: William Faulker's A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning
- 5.17: Zora Neale Hurston's The Sweat
- 06: About Poetry
- 6.01: What is Poetry
- 6.02: Music and Poetry
- 6.03: Reading Poetry
- 6.04: Case Study- A Close Reading of a Poem
- 6.05: Why Analyze Poetry
- 6.06: The Line in Poetry
- 6.07: Word Choice Word Order and Tone
- 6.08: Voice
- 6.09: Imagery
- 6.10: Figurative Language
- 6.11: Sound in Poetry- Meter
- 6.12: Sound in Poetry- Alliteration Consonance Assonance
- 6.13: Sound in Poetry- Rhyme
- 6.14: Form in Poetry
- 07: Poetry Readings
- 7.01: Romantic Poets
- 7.02: Emily Dickinson
- 7.03: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 7.04: Poet - William Wordsworth
- 7.05: Wordsworth William I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)
- 7.06: Robert Frost
- 7.07: Walt Whitman
- 7.08: Featured Period - The Harlem Renaissance
- 7.09: Cavendish Margaret The Hunting of the Hare (1653)
- 7.10: Crane Stephen In the Desert (1895)
- 7.11: Burns Robert To a Mouse (1785)
- 7.12: Behn Aphra. Two Poems. (1688)
- 7.13: Dong-joo Yoon. Selected Poems from Sky Wind and Stars. Trans. Kyung-nyun Kay Richards and Steffen F. Richards (2003)
- 7.14: Hill Sean Distance Between Desires from Dangerous Goods (2013)
- 7.15: Hughes Langston The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)
- 7.16: Keats John. Selected Poems. (1819)
- 7.17: Marlowe Christopher The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599)
- 7.18: Moore Alice Ruth Amid the Roses (1895)
- 7.19: Nguyen Hieu Minh. The Study and White Boy Time Machine- Override (2018)
- 7.20: Raleigh Walter The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (1600)
- 7.21: Robinson Edwin Arlington Richard Cory (1897)
- 7.22: Wheatley Phillis. Selections from Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral (1773)
- 7.23: Williams William Carlos. Selected poems (1913-1923).
- 7.24: Tennyson Alfred Lord The Lady of Shalott (1832)
- 7.25: Allen Gingsbert- Beat Poet
- 7.26: Athena Kashyap
- 7.27: Sylvia Plath
- 7.28: The Book of Songs- China (before 551 B.C.E.)
- 7.29: 7.29 Pound Ezra. Selected poems. (1885-1972)
- 08: About Drama
- 8.01: What is Drama
- 8.02: Elements of Drama
- 8.03: Reading and Responding to Drama
- 8.04: Featured Playwright - William Shakespeare
- 8.05: Drama Discussion Questions Assignments and Supplemental Resources
- 09: Drama Readings
- 9.01: Glaspell Susan. Trifles and The Verge (1916)
- 9.02: Tagore Rabindranath. Chitra (1914)
- 10: About Literary Criticism
- 10.01: Literary Criticism
- 10.02: What is Literary Criticism
- 10.03: Formalism
- 10.04: Psychoanalytic Criticism
- 10.05: Gender Criticism
- 10.06: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies Criticism
- 10.07: New Historicism
- 10.08: Ecocriticism
- 11: Literary Criticism Readings
- 11.01: Aristotle. Poetics. (335 B.C.)
- 11.02: Eliot T.S. Hamlet and His Problems from The Sacred Wood (1919)
- 11.03: Showalter Elaine. Ophelia Gender and Madness (2016)
- 12: Writing About Literature
- 12.01: What Does My Professor Want
- 12.02: The Writing Process for Literary Essays
- 12.03: Prewriting for Literature Essays
- 12.04: Writing About Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
- 12.05: Outlining for Literary Essays
- 12.06: Literary Thesis Statements
- 12.07: Essay as Argument
- 12.08: Summarizing
- 12.09: Essay Type- Literary Response
- 12.10: Essay Type- Literary Analysis
- 12.11: Essay Type- Comparing and Contrasting Literature
- 12.12: Essay Type- Literary Research
- 12.13: How to Perform Literary Research (Navigating Secondary Sources and Library Databases)
- 12.14: Sample Student Literary Analysis Essays
- 12.15: Writing About Poetry
- 12.16: Analyzing Poetry
- 12.17: Compare and Contrast Poetry Assignments
- 12.18: Robert Browning's Memorablia
- 12.19: Writing About Drama
- 13: Citations and Formatting Guide for Literature (MLA)
- 13.01: Avoiding Plagiarism Through Ethical Attribution
- 13.02: What is MLA
- 13.03: Formatting a Literature Essay (MLA)
- 13.04: MLA Works Cited page
- 13.05: MLA In-Text Citations
- 13.06: Quotation Paraphrase and Summary