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For courses in literary criticism or literary analysis.Theories and strategies for writing about literatureBy considering how adept readers behave and what assumptions they might make while interacting with literary text, Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory teaches students the challenging art of writing about literature. The Seventh Edition provides overviews of literature and how to write about it, as well as critical and literary theory with examples throughout. Students will learn versatile strategies in reading, writing, interpreting data, and constructing arguments that can be applied to virtually any field. Also available with MyLiteratureLabMyLiteratureLab is an online resource that works with our literature anthologies to provide engaging experiences to instructors and students.Students can access new content that fosters an understanding of literary elements, which provides a foundation for stimulating class discussions. This simple and powerful tool offers state-of-the-art audio and video resources along with practical tools and flexible assessment. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLiteratureLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLiteratureLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and My##Lab, search for:0134272455 / 9780134272450 Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory Plus MyLiteratureLab - Access Card PackagePackage consists of:0133931269 / 9780133931266 MyLiteratureLab without Pearson eText - Standalone Access Card 0133931277 / 9780133931273 MyLiteratureLab without Pearson eText - Inside Star Sticker 032194562X / 9780321945624 Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory
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BRIEF CONTENTS1. An Introduction, Theoretically2. Critical Words: A Selective Tour3. Unifying the Work: New Criticism4. Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism5. Opening Up the Text: Structuralism and Deconstruction6. Connecting the Text: Historical and New Historical Criticism7. Minding the Work: Psychological Criticism8. Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism, Post-feminism, and Queer TheoryCOMPREHENSIVE CONTENTSPREFACE 1. An Introduction, TheoreticallyTextual ToursChecking Some Baggage"Is There One Correct Interpretation of a Literary Work?""So, Are All Opinions About Literature Equally Valid?"Anything to Declare?Theory Enables PracticeYou Already Have a Theoretical StanceThis is an IntroductionHere's the PlanWorks Cited and Recommended Further Reading 2. Critical Worlds: A Selective TourBrendan Gill, from Here at "The New Yorker"New CriticismReader-Response CriticismStructuralist and Deconstructive CriticismHistorical, Postcolonial, and Cultural StudiesPsychological CriticismPolitical CriticismOther ApproachesWorks Cited and Recommended Further Reading3. Unifying the Work: New CriticismThe Purpose of New CriticismBasic Principles ReflectedArchibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica"Radicals in Tweed JacketsHow to Do New CriticismFilm and Other GenresThe Writing Process: A Sample EssayGwendolyn Brooks, "The Mother"Preparing to WriteShapingDraftingPracticing New CriticismStephen Shu-ning Liu, "My Father's Martial Art"QuestionsBen Jonson, "On My First Son"QuestionsThe Parable of the Prodigal SonQuestionsUseful Terms for New CriticismChecklist for New CriticismWorks CitedRecommended Further Reading4. Creating the Text: Reader-Response CriticismThe Purpose of Reader-Response CriticismNew Criticism as the Old CriticismThe Reader EmergesHypertextual ReadersHow to Do Reader-Response CriticismPreparing to RespondSandra Cisneros, "Love Poem #1"Making SenseSubjective ResponseReceptive ResponseThe Writing Process: A Sample EssayPreparing to RespondErnest Hemingway, A Very Short StoryPreparing to WriteShapingDraftingPracticing Reader-Response CriticismMichael Drayton, "Since There's No Help"QuestionsJudith Minty, Killing the BearQuestionsTom Wayman, "Did I Miss Anything?"QuestionsA. Williams "deep as space"QuestionsUseful Terms for Reader-Response CriticismChecklist: Using Reader-Response CriticismWorks CitedRecommended Further Reading5. Opening Up the Text: Structuralism and DeconstructionThe Purposes of Structuralism and DeconstructionStructuralism and SemioticsPoststructuralism and DeconstructionHow to Do Structuralism and DeconstructionWilliam Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium"The Writing Process: A Sample EssayAmy Clampitt, "Discovery"Preparing to WriteShapingDraftingPracticing Structuralist and Deconstructive CriticismQuestionsCut through the anxiety, the unknown, the hassle . . . William Blake, "London"QuestionsLinda Pastan, "Ethics"QuestionsJohn Donne, "Death Be Not Proud"QuestionsUseful Terms for DeconstructionChecklist for DeconstructionWorks CitedRecommended Further Reading6. Connecting the Text: Historical and New Historical CriticismThe Purposes of Historical and New Historical CriticismBiographical and Historical CriticismJohn Milton, "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"Cultural StudiesNew HistoricismHistory as TextMarxist CriticismPostcolonial and Ethnic StudiesHow to Do Biographical and Historical CriticismThe Writing Process: Sample EssaysJohn Cheever, ReunionA Biographical EssayPreparing to WriteShapingDraftingA New Historical EssayPreparing to WriteShaping
