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Critical Thinking Through Literature

This chapter 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: City College of San Francisco
Source: LibreTexts
Language: EN
Category: English

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Contents· 37 sections

2.01: About Creative Nonfiction
2.02: About Fiction - Short Stories and the Novel
2.02: Front Matter
2.2.01: Table of Contents
2.03: What is Fiction
2.04: How to Read Fiction
2.05: Elements of Fiction
2.06: Character
2.07: Plot
2.08: Setting
2.09: Narration Point of View Dialogue
2.10: Word Choice Tone Voice and Style
2.11: Rhetorical and Literary Devices
2.12: Theme
2.13: Naming the Unnameable - An Approach to Poetry for New Generations (Evory)
2.14: Introduction - Our Natural Right to Play
2.15: Getting Started - The Nine Muses
2.16: Welcome Reader- Reading Poetry
2.17: Images
2.18: Voice
2.19: Architecture
2.20: Acoustics
2.21: Experimenting with Forms
2.22: Revision
2.23: About Drama
2.24: What is Drama
2.25: Elements of Drama
2.26: Reading and Responding to Drama
2.27: About Literary Criticism
2.28: Literary Criticism
2.29: What is Literary Criticism
2.30: Formalism
2.31: Psychoanalytic Criticism
2.32: Criticism and Gender
2.33: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies Criticism
2.34: New Historicism
2.35: Ecocriticism