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Creating Literary Analysis

Literary scholarship is guided by literary theories and expressed through writing; it doesn’t make sense to learn each in isolation. Literary theories are intellectual models that scholars use to understand stories, novels, poems, plays, and other texts. Different theories prioritize different historical, social, or methodological concerns. The authors believe students of literature should learn about many literary theories.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
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Contents· 107 sections
  1. 01: Introduction - What Is Literary Theory and Why Should I Care
  2. 1.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
  3. 1.02: What Is Literary Theory
  4. 1.03: Why Study Literary Theory
  5. 1.04: What Is the Writing Process
  6. 1.05: Why Commit to the Writing Process
  7. 1.06: What Is Academic Argument
  8. 1.07: Introducing an Academic Argument
  9. 1.08: Student Writer at Work- Monica Plattens The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- An Allegory for a Young America
  10. 1.09: Understanding the Body of Monicas Argument
  11. 1.10: Conclusion to the Introduction
  12. 1.11: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  13. 02: Writing about Form - Developing the Foundations of Close Reading
  14. 2.01: Literary Snapshot - Through the Looking-Glass
  15. 2.02: The Foundations of New Criticism- An Overview
  16. 2.03: Close Reading Strategies - A Process Approach
  17. 2.04: Student Writer at Work- Kelly Ann Wolslegels Close Reading of Edna St. Vincent Millays Love Is Not All
  18. 2.05: Student Sample Papers- Todd Goodwins Poes Usher- A Mirror of the Fall of the House of Humanity and Amy Chisnells Dont Listen to the Egg- A Close Reading of Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky
  19. 2.06: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  20. 2.07: Suggestions for Further Reading
  21. 03: Writing about Character and Motivation - Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
  22. 3.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
  23. 3.02: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism- An Overview
  24. 3.03: Focus on Sigmund Freud (18561939)- Unconscious Repressed Desire
  25. 3.04: Focus on Jacques Lacan (190181)- Repressed Desire and the Limits of Language
  26. 3.05: Focus on Carl Jung (18751961) - The Archetypal Collective Unconsciousness
  27. 3.06: Reading Keatss Urn through the Psychoanalytic Lens
  28. 3.07: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism- A Process Approach
  29. 3.08: Student Writers at Work- Jenn Nemecs Jungian Psychoanalytic Reading of The Birthmark Susan Moores Freudian Reading of The Birthmark and Sarah Davids Lacanian Reading of The Birthmark
  30. 3.09: Student Sample Paper- Susan Moores The Desire for Perfection in Hawthornes The Birthmark
  31. 3.10: Student Sample Paper- Sarah Davids A Lacanian Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthornes The Birthmark
  32. 3.11: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  33. 3.12: Suggestions for Further Reading
  34. 04: Writing about Gender and Sexuality - Applying Feminist and Gender Criticism
  35. 4.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
  36. 4.02: Feminist Theory- An Overview
  37. 4.03: Gender Criticism and Queer Theory
  38. 4.04: Gender Criticism- Masculinity Studies
  39. 4.05: Feminist and Gender Criticism- A Process Approach
  40. 4.06: Student Writer at Work- Gretchen Panzers Feminist Response to F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby
  41. 4.07: Student Sample Paper- Carrie Obrys Homoerotic Impulses in Willa Cathers Pauls Case
  42. 4.08: Student Sample Paper- Duncan Raunios The Tragedy of Performing Gender in Kate Chopins The Awakening
  43. 4.09: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  44. 4.10: Suggestions for Further Reading
  45. 05: Writing about Racial Ethnic and Cultural Identity
  46. 5.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
  47. 5.02: Postcolonial Racial and Ethnic Theory- An Overview
  48. 5.03: Writing about Race Ethnic and Cultural Identity- A Process Approach
  49. 5.04: Student Writer at Work- Ashley Eckhardts Postcolonial Paper in Action
  50. 5.05: Student Writer at Work- Stefanie Jochmans African American Studies Paper in Action
  51. 5.06: Student Writer at Work- Hannah Schmitts Ethnic Studies Paper in Action
  52. 5.07: Student Sample Student Paper- Alyce Hockerss The Slavery Metaphor of Moby-Dick
  53. 5.08: Strategies for Starting Your Cultural Identity Paper
  54. 5.E: Writing about Racial Ethnic and Cultural Identity (Exercises)
  55. 5.S: Writing about Racial Ethnic and Cultural Identity (Summary)
  56. 06: Writing about Readers - Applying Reader-Response Theory
  57. 6.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
  58. 6.02: Reader-Response Theory- An Overview
  59. 6.03: Focus on Reader-Response Strategies
  60. 6.04: Reader Response- A Process Approach
  61. 6.05: Student Writer at Work- Amy Ferdinandts Reader Response to James Thurbers The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  62. 6.06: Student Sample Paper- Hannah Schmitts The Death of Intellectualism in Grahame-Smith and Austens Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  63. 6.07: Student Sample Paper- Erin Huebner Gloeges Identity Themes in Dickinson- Four Students Reading
  64. 6.08: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  65. 6.09: Suggestions for Further Reading
  66. 07: Writing about History and Culture from a New Historical Perspective
  67. 7.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
  68. 7.02: New Historical Criticism- An Overview
  69. 7.03: Finding a Historical Topic- Paige Caulums Melvilles Benito Cereno
  70. 7.04: Finding Historical Evidence- Melvilles Benito Cereno
  71. 7.05: Testing and Refining Your Historical Claim
  72. 7.06: Student Sample Paper- Paige Caulums Herman Melvilles Benito Cereno- A Political Commentary on Manifest Destiny
  73. 7.07: Writing about History and Culture- A Process Approach
  74. 7.08: Student Sample Paper- Stefanie Jochmans Words of Lead- Emily Dickinsons Poetry and the Grief of the Civil War
  75. 7.09: Strategies for Starting Your New Historical Paper
  76. 7.10: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  77. 7.11: Suggestions for Further Reading
  78. 08: Writing about the Natural World
  79. 8.01: Literary Snapshot- Through the Looking-Glass
  80. 8.02: Ecocriticism- An Overview
  81. 8.03: Focus on Ecocritical Approaches - Ecofeminism and Darwinian Literary Criticism
  82. 8.04: Writing about the Natural World - A Process Approach
  83. 8.05: Student Writer at Work- Jens Paasens Ecocritical Paper in Development
  84. 8.06: Student Sample Paper- Jens Paasens If You Want to Belong You Have to Buy- Disneys Pocahontas and Consumerism in a Natural Disguise
  85. 8.07: Student Sample Paper- Allison Shakeltons Separation from Nature in The Light Princess
  86. 8.08: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  87. 8.09: Suggestions for Further Reading
  88. 09: Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
  89. 9.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
  90. 9.02: Digital Literary Studies- An Overview
  91. 9.03: Writing for the Web- A Process Approach
  92. 9.04: Creating a Thematic Research Collection
  93. 9.05: Creating a Digital Timeline
  94. 9.06: Mapping a Text
  95. 9.07: Student Sample Paper- Maria Slusareks Mapping Melville Reflection
  96. 9.08: Student Sample Digital Project- Maria Dzuriks St. Augustines Confessions
  97. 9.09: End-of-Chapter Assessment
  98. 9.10: Suggestions for Further Reading
  99. 10: Appendix - Peer Review Sheets
  100. 10.01: Chapter 2- Close Reading
  101. 10.02: Chapter 3- Psychoanalysis
  102. 10.03: Chapter 4- Feminist and Gender
  103. 10.04: Chapter 5- Race and Ethnicity
  104. 10.05: Chapter 6- Reader Response
  105. 10.06: Chapter 7- New Historical
  106. 10.07: Chapter 8- Ecocritical
  107. 10.08: Chapter 9- Digital Project