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Critical Thinking Through Literature

This course 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.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
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Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap
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LibreTexts
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CC BY-NC
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EN
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English
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Contents· 164 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: Sun Tzu. The Art of War (5th Century B.C.)
  27. 3.09: Swift Jonathan. A Modest Proposal. (1729)
  28. 3.10: Wordsworth Dorothy Daffodils entry from Grasmere journal (1802)
  29. 04: About Fiction - Short Stories and the Novel
  30. 4.01: What is Fiction
  31. 4.02: Short Stories versus the Novel
  32. 4.03: Types of Novels
  33. 4.04: How to Read Fiction
  34. 4.05: How to Analyze Fiction - Elements of Literature
  35. 4.06: Character
  36. 4.07: Plot
  37. 4.08: Setting
  38. 4.09: Narration Point of View Dialogue
  39. 4.10: Word Choice Tone Voice and Style
  40. 4.11: Rhetorical and Literary Devices
  41. 4.12: Theme
  42. 4.13: A Review and Questions
  43. 4.14: Match and Learn Quiz
  44. 05: Fiction Readings
  45. 5.01: Bierce Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
  46. 5.02: Chopin Kate The Story of an Hour (1894)
  47. 5.03: Gilman Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
  48. 5.04: Hawthorne Nathaniel The Birthmark (1846)
  49. 5.05: Irving Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
  50. 5.06: Melville Herman. Bartleby The Scrivener (1853)
  51. 5.07: Moore Alice Ruth Violets (1895)
  52. 5.08: Poe Edgar Allan The Purloined Letter (1844)
  53. 5.09: Wilde Oscar The Nightingale and the Rose (1888)
  54. 5.10: Woolf Virginia Kew Gardens (1921)
  55. 5.11: Cather Willa. On the Gull's Road (1908)
  56. 5.12: Davis Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron-Mills (1861)
  57. 5.13: Ray Bradburys The Veldt
  58. 5.14: A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
  59. 5.15: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People
  60. 5.16: William Faulker's A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning
  61. 5.17: Zora Neale Hurston's The Sweat
  62. 5.18: Poe Edgar Allan. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
  63. 5.19: Sakhawat Hossain Rokeya Sultana's Dream (1905)
  64. 06: About Poetry
  65. 6.01: What is Poetry
  66. 6.02: Music and Poetry
  67. 6.03: Reading Poetry
  68. 6.04: Case Study - A Close Reading of a Poem
  69. 6.05: Why Analyze Poetry
  70. 6.06: The Line in Poetry
  71. 6.07: Word Choice Word Order and Tone
  72. 6.08: Voice
  73. 6.09: Imagery
  74. 6.10: Figurative Language
  75. 6.11: Sound in Poetry - Meter
  76. 6.12: Sound in Poetry - Alliteration Consonance Assonance
  77. 6.13: Sound in Poetry - Rhyme
  78. 6.14: Form in Poetry
  79. 07: Poetry Readings
  80. 7.01: Romantic Poets
  81. 7.02: Emily Dickinson
  82. 7.03: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  83. 7.04: Wordsworth William. Selected Poems
  84. 7.05: Robert Frost
  85. 7.06: Walt Whitman
  86. 7.07: Featured Period - The Harlem Renaissance
  87. 7.08: Cavendish Margaret. The Hunting of the Hare (1653)
  88. 7.09: Crane Stephen. In the Desert (1895)
  89. 7.10: Burns Robert. To a Mouse (1785)
  90. 7.11: Behn Aphra. Two Poems (1688)
  91. 7.12: Dong-joo Yoon. Selected Poems from Sky Wind and Stars. Trans. Kyung-nyun Kay Richards and Steffen F. Richards (2003)
  92. 7.13: Hill Sean. Distance Between Desires from Dangerous Goods (2013)
  93. 7.14: Hughes Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)
  94. 7.15: Keats John. Selected Poems. (1819)
  95. 7.16: Marlowe Christopher. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599)
  96. 7.17: Moore Alice Ruth. Amid the Roses (1895)
  97. 7.18: Nguyen Hieu Minh. The Study and White Boy Time Machine- Override (2018)
  98. 7.19: Raleigh Walter. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (1600)
  99. 7.20: Robinson Edwin Arlington. Richard Cory (1897)
  100. 7.21: Wheatley Phillis. Selections from Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral (1773)
  101. 7.22: Williams William Carlos. Selected poems (1913-1923)
  102. 7.23: Tennyson Alfred Lord. The Lady of Shalott (1832)
  103. 7.24: Allen Ginsberg - Beat Poet
  104. 7.25: Athena Kashyap
  105. 7.26: Sylvia Plath
  106. 7.27: The Book of Songs - China (before 551 B.C.E.)
  107. 7.28: 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: Ibsen Henrik. A Doll's House (1879)
  117. 9.03: Sophocles. Antigone (441 BC)
  118. 9.04: Shakespeare William. MacBeth Act 1 (1623)
  119. 9.05: Shakespeare William. MacBeth Act 2 (1623)
  120. 9.06: Tagore Rabindranath. Chitra (1914)
  121. 10: About Literary Criticism
  122. 10.01: Literary Criticism
  123. 10.02: What is Literary Criticism
  124. 10.03: Formalism
  125. 10.04: Psychoanalytic Criticism
  126. 10.05: Criticism and Gender
  127. 10.06: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies Criticism
  128. 10.07: New Historicism
  129. 10.08: Ecocriticism
  130. 11: Literary Criticism Readings
  131. 11.01: Aristotle. Poetics (335 B.C.)
  132. 11.02: Eliot T.S. Hamlet and His Problems from The Sacred Wood (1919)
  133. 11.03: Showalter Elaine. Ophelia Gender and Madness (2016)
  134. 11.04: 11.4 Snow Heidi J. William Wordsworths Definition of Poverty (2009)
  135. 11.05: 11.5 Bly Antonio T. 'By her unveil'd each horrid crime appears'- Authorship Text and Subtext in Phillis Wheatley's Variants Poems (2014)
  136. 12: Writing About Literature
  137. 12.01: What Does My Professor Want
  138. 12.02: The Writing Process for Literary Essays
  139. 12.03: Prewriting for Literature Essays
  140. 12.04: Writing About Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
  141. 12.05: Outlining for Literary Essays
  142. 12.06: Literary Thesis Statements
  143. 12.07: Essay as Argument
  144. 12.08: Summarizing
  145. 12.09: Essay Type - Literary Response
  146. 12.10: Essay Type - Literary Analysis
  147. 12.11: Essay Type - Comparing and Contrasting Literature
  148. 12.12: Essay Type - Literary Research
  149. 12.13: How to Perform Literary Research (Navigating Secondary Sources and Library Databases)
  150. 12.14: Sample Student Literary Analysis Essays
  151. 12.15: Writing About Poetry
  152. 12.16: Analyzing Poetry
  153. 12.17: Compare and Contrast Poetry Assignments
  154. 12.18: Robert Browning's Memorablia
  155. 12.19: Writing About Drama
  156. 12.20: Literary Essay Titles
  157. 13: Citations and Formatting Guide for Literature (MLA)
  158. 13.01: Avoiding Plagiarism Through Ethical Attribution
  159. 13.02: What is MLA
  160. 13.03: Formatting a Literature Essay (MLA)
  161. 13.04: MLA Works Cited page
  162. 13.05: MLA In-Text Citations
  163. 13.06: Quotation Paraphrase and Summary
  164. 13.07: 13.7 Integrating Quotations Smoothly (Avoid Floating Quotations)