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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.

Humanities
Author
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap
Publisher
Open Educational Resources Initiative
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 156 sections
  1. 01: Introduction
  2. 1.01: What is Literature
  3. 1.02: Why Read and Write About Literature
  4. 1.03: What is Literary Analysis
  5. 1.04: Language Misconceptions and Authorial Intention in Literature
  6. 1.05: Inferences in Literature
  7. 1.06: The Rough Guide to Literary Style a Historical Overview
  8. 1.07: Discussion Activity - What is Literature To You
  9. 1.08: The Literary Landscape- Four Major Genres
  10. 02: About Creative Nonfiction
  11. 2.01: What is Creative Nonfiction
  12. 2.02: Elements of Creative Nonfiction
  13. 2.03: How to Read Creative Nonfiction
  14. 2.04: Featured Creative Nonfiction Author- Frederick Douglass
  15. 2.05: Creative Nonfiction Reading Discussion Questions
  16. 2.06: Descriptive Imagery Worksheets
  17. 2.07: The Personal Narrative Essay
  18. 03: Creative Nonfiction Readings
  19. 3.01: Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi The Danger of a Single Story (2009)
  20. 3.02: Anderson Karen Six Short Essays (2017)
  21. 3.03: Bierce Ambrose What I Saw of Shiloh (1881)
  22. 3.04: Cantu Francisco Bajadas (2015)
  23. 3.05: Douglass Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
  24. 3.06: DuBois W.E.B. Of Our Spiritual Strivings from The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
  25. 3.07: Oomen Anne-Marie The Blue (2018)
  26. 3.08: Plato The Allegory of the Cave excerpt from The Republic (360 BC)
  27. 3.09: Sun Tzu. The Art of War (5th Century B.C.)
  28. 3.10: Swift Jonathan. A Modest Proposal. (1729)
  29. 3.11: Wordsworth Dorothy Daffodils entry from Grasmere journal (1802)
  30. 04: About Fiction - Short Stories and the Novel
  31. 4.01: What is Fiction
  32. 4.02: Short Stories versus the Novel
  33. 4.03: Types of Novels
  34. 4.04: How to Read Fiction
  35. 4.05: How to Analyze Fiction - Elements of Literature
  36. 4.06: Character
  37. 4.07: Plot
  38. 4.08: Setting
  39. 4.09: Narration Point of View Dialogue
  40. 4.10: Word Choice Tone Voice and Style
  41. 4.11: Rhetorical and Literary Devices
  42. 4.12: Theme
  43. 4.13: A Review and Questions
  44. 4.14: Match and Learn Quiz
  45. 05: Fiction Readings
  46. 5.01: Bierce Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
  47. 5.02: Chopin Kate The Story of an Hour (1894)
  48. 5.03: Gilman Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
  49. 5.04: Hawthorne Nathaniel The Birthmark (1846)
  50. 5.05: Irving Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
  51. 5.06: Melville Herman. Bartleby The Scrivener (1853)
  52. 5.07: Moore Alice Ruth Violets (1895)
  53. 5.08: Poe Edgar Allan The Purloined Letter (1844)
  54. 5.09: Wilde Oscar The Nightingale and the Rose (1888)
  55. 5.10: Woolf Virginia Kew Gardens (1921)
  56. 5.11: Cather Willa. On the Gull's Road (1908)
  57. 5.12: Davis Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron-Mills (1861)
  58. 5.13: Ray Bradburys The Veldt
  59. 5.14: A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
  60. 5.15: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People
  61. 5.16: William Faulker's A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning
  62. 5.17: Zora Neale Hurston's The Sweat
  63. 06: About Poetry
  64. 6.01: What is Poetry
  65. 6.02: Music and Poetry
  66. 6.03: Reading Poetry
  67. 6.04: Case Study- A Close Reading of a Poem
  68. 6.05: Why Analyze Poetry
  69. 6.06: The Line in Poetry
  70. 6.07: Word Choice Word Order and Tone
  71. 6.08: Voice
  72. 6.09: Imagery
  73. 6.10: Figurative Language
  74. 6.11: Sound in Poetry- Meter
  75. 6.12: Sound in Poetry- Alliteration Consonance Assonance
  76. 6.13: Sound in Poetry- Rhyme
  77. 6.14: Form in Poetry
  78. 07: Poetry Readings
  79. 7.01: Romantic Poets
  80. 7.02: Emily Dickinson
  81. 7.03: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  82. 7.04: Poet - William Wordsworth
  83. 7.05: Wordsworth William I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)
  84. 7.06: Robert Frost
  85. 7.07: Walt Whitman
  86. 7.08: Featured Period - The Harlem Renaissance
  87. 7.09: Cavendish Margaret The Hunting of the Hare (1653)
  88. 7.10: Crane Stephen In the Desert (1895)
  89. 7.11: Burns Robert To a Mouse (1785)
  90. 7.12: Behn Aphra. Two Poems. (1688)
  91. 7.13: Dong-joo Yoon. Selected Poems from Sky Wind and Stars. Trans. Kyung-nyun Kay Richards and Steffen F. Richards (2003)
  92. 7.14: Hill Sean Distance Between Desires from Dangerous Goods (2013)
  93. 7.15: Hughes Langston The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)
  94. 7.16: Keats John. Selected Poems. (1819)
  95. 7.17: Marlowe Christopher The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599)
  96. 7.18: Moore Alice Ruth Amid the Roses (1895)
  97. 7.19: Nguyen Hieu Minh. The Study and White Boy Time Machine- Override (2018)
  98. 7.20: Raleigh Walter The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (1600)
  99. 7.21: Robinson Edwin Arlington Richard Cory (1897)
  100. 7.22: Wheatley Phillis. Selections from Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral (1773)
  101. 7.23: Williams William Carlos. Selected poems (1913-1923).
  102. 7.24: Tennyson Alfred Lord The Lady of Shalott (1832)
  103. 7.25: Allen Gingsbert- Beat Poet
  104. 7.26: Athena Kashyap
  105. 7.27: Sylvia Plath
  106. 7.28: The Book of Songs- China (before 551 B.C.E.)
  107. 7.29: 7.29 Pound Ezra. Selected poems. (1885-1972)
  108. 08: About Drama
  109. 8.01: What is Drama
  110. 8.02: Elements of Drama
  111. 8.03: Reading and Responding to Drama
  112. 8.04: Featured Playwright - William Shakespeare
  113. 8.05: Drama Discussion Questions Assignments and Supplemental Resources
  114. 09: Drama Readings
  115. 9.01: Glaspell Susan. Trifles and The Verge (1916)
  116. 9.02: Tagore Rabindranath. Chitra (1914)
  117. 10: About Literary Criticism
  118. 10.01: Literary Criticism
  119. 10.02: What is Literary Criticism
  120. 10.03: Formalism
  121. 10.04: Psychoanalytic Criticism
  122. 10.05: Gender Criticism
  123. 10.06: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies Criticism
  124. 10.07: New Historicism
  125. 10.08: Ecocriticism
  126. 11: Literary Criticism Readings
  127. 11.01: Aristotle. Poetics. (335 B.C.)
  128. 11.02: Eliot T.S. Hamlet and His Problems from The Sacred Wood (1919)
  129. 11.03: Showalter Elaine. Ophelia Gender and Madness (2016)
  130. 12: Writing About Literature
  131. 12.01: What Does My Professor Want
  132. 12.02: The Writing Process for Literary Essays
  133. 12.03: Prewriting for Literature Essays
  134. 12.04: Writing About Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
  135. 12.05: Outlining for Literary Essays
  136. 12.06: Literary Thesis Statements
  137. 12.07: Essay as Argument
  138. 12.08: Summarizing
  139. 12.09: Essay Type- Literary Response
  140. 12.10: Essay Type- Literary Analysis
  141. 12.11: Essay Type- Comparing and Contrasting Literature
  142. 12.12: Essay Type- Literary Research
  143. 12.13: How to Perform Literary Research (Navigating Secondary Sources and Library Databases)
  144. 12.14: Sample Student Literary Analysis Essays
  145. 12.15: Writing About Poetry
  146. 12.16: Analyzing Poetry
  147. 12.17: Compare and Contrast Poetry Assignments
  148. 12.18: Robert Browning's Memorablia
  149. 12.19: Writing About Drama
  150. 13: Citations and Formatting Guide for Literature (MLA)
  151. 13.01: Avoiding Plagiarism Through Ethical Attribution
  152. 13.02: What is MLA
  153. 13.03: Formatting a Literature Essay (MLA)
  154. 13.04: MLA Works Cited page
  155. 13.05: MLA In-Text Citations
  156. 13.06: Quotation Paraphrase and Summary