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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

04.06.2024

Verlag

Pearson Education Limited

Seitenzahl

392

Maße (L/B/H)

27,6/21,6/2,2 cm

Gewicht

816 g

Auflage

12

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-292-04091-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

04.06.2024

Verlag

Pearson Education Limited

Seitenzahl

392

Maße (L/B/H)

27,6/21,6/2,2 cm

Gewicht

816 g

Auflage

12

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-292-04091-2

Herstelleradresse

Pearson
St.-Martin-Straße 82
81541 München
DE

Email: salesde@pearson.com

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  • Produktbild: Short Guide to Writing about Literature, A

  • PREFACE

    LETTER TO STUDENTS       

    PART 1

    Jumping In



     

    2— THE WRITER AS READER: READING AND RESPONDING 

     Kate Chopin, “Ripe Figs” 

     The Act of Reading 

     Reading with a Pen in Hand 

     Recording Your First Responses 

     Audience and Purpose 

     A Writing Assignment on “Ripe Figs” 

     The Assignment 

     A Sample Essay: “Images of Ripening in Kate Chopin’s ‘Ripe Figs’ ” 

     The Student’s Analysis Analyzed 

     Critical Thinking and the Study of Literature 

     

    3— THE READER AS WRITER: DRAFTING AND WRITING 

     Pre-writing: Getting Ideas 

     Annotating a Text 

     More about Getting Ideas: A Second Story by Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” 

     Kate Chopin: “The Story of an Hour” 

     Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing 

     Focused Free Writing 

     Listing 

     Asking Questions 

     Keeping a Journal 

     Critical Thinking: Arguing with Yourself 

     Arriving at a Thesis and Arguing It 

     Writing a Draft 

     A Sample Draft: “Ironies in an Hour” 

     Revising a Draft 

      A Checklist for Revising for Clarity

     Two Ways of Outlining a Draft 

      A Checklist for Reviewing a Revised Draft 

     Peer Review 

     The Final Version 

     Sample Essay: “Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour’ ”  

     The Analysis Analyzed 

     Quick Review: From First Response to Final Version: Writing an Essay about a Literary Work 

     

    4— TWO FORMS OF CRITICISM: EXPLICATION AND ANALYSIS  

     Explication 

     A Sample Explication: Langston Hughes’s “Harlem” 

     Working toward an Explication of “Harlem”  

     Some Journal Entries  

     The Final Draft: “Langston Hughes’s ‘Harlem’ ”  

     The Analysis Analyzed  

    A Checklist: Drafting an Explication 

     Analysis: The Judgment of Solomon 

     Thinking about Form 

     Thinking about Character 

     Thoughts about Other Possibilities  

    For Further reading and Analysis: The Parable of the Prodigal Son  NEW

    Comparison: An Analytic Tool 

    A Checklist: Revising a Comparison   

    For Further Reading and Comparison: Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” NEW

      Finding a Topic 

     Considering the Evidence 

     Organizing the Material 

     Communicating Judgments 

     Review: How to Write an Effective Essay

    1. Pre-writing 

      2. Drafting 

      3. Revising 

      4. Editing  

    An Editing Checklist: Questions to Ask Yourself When Editing 

    For Further Reading, Explication, and Comparison: William Blake’s “The Tyger” NEW

     

    5– OTHER KINDS OF WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE  

     A Summary 

     A Paraphrase 

     A Review 

     A Review of a Dramatic Production  

     A Sample Review: “An Effective Macbeth” 

     

     

    PART 2

    Standing Back: Thinking Critically about Literature