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Critical Thinking and Literature
- Author
- Roxann Schmidt
- Publisher
- Diablo Valley College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- Language
- EN
- Category
- English
Contents· 42 sections
- 01: What is Literature and Literary Analysis
- 1.01: What is Literature
- 1.02: Why Read and Write About Literature
- 1.03: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
- 1.04: What Is Literary Theory
- 1.05: What is Literary Analysis
- 02: New Criticism Feminist Theory Gender Criticism and Queer Theory
- 2.01: Literary Snapshot - Through the Looking-Glass
- 2.02: The Foundations of New Criticism- An Overview
- 2.03: Close Reading Strategies - A Process Approach
- 2.04: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
- 2.05: Feminist Theory- An Overview
- 2.06: Gender Criticism and Queer Theory
- 03: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
- 3.01: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
- 3.02: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism- An Overview
- 3.03: Focus on Sigmund Freud (18561939)- Unconscious Repressed Desire
- 3.04: Focus on Jacques Lacan (190181)- Repressed Desire and the Limits of Language
- 3.05: Focus on Carl Jung (18751961) - The Archetypal Collective Unconsciousness
- 04: The Writing Process
- 4.01: What is Revision
- 4.02: The Writing Process for Literary Essays
- 4.03: Prewriting for Literature Essays
- 4.04: Drafting Techniques
- 4.05: Reorganizing without the 5-paragraph essay
- 4.06: Literary Thesis Statements
- 4.07: Introducing an Academic Argument
- 4.08: Student Writer at Work- Monica Plattens The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- An Allegory for a Young America
- 4.09: Student Writer at Work- Kelly Ann Wolslegels Close Reading of Edna St. Vincent Millays Love Is Not All
- 05: Writing Effective Arguments
- 5.01: Essay as Argument
- 5.02: Logos Ethos and Pathos
- 5.03: Evidence
- 5.04: Literary Analysis Arguments
- 5.05: Introducing an Academic Argument
- 06: Postcolonial Racial and Ethnic Theory and Reader Response Theory
- 6.01: Postcolonial Racial and Ethnic Theory- An Overview
- 6.02: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
- 6.03: Literary Snapshot- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
- 6.04: Reader-Response Theory- An Overview
- 6.05: Focus on Reader-Response Strategies
- 6.06: Student Sample Paper- Hannah Schmitts The Death of Intellectualism in Grahame-Smith and Austens Pride and Prejudice and Zombies