Writing about Literature - Second Edition: A Guide for the Student Critic
Autor W.F. Garrett-Pettsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2013
Subliniem faptul că a doua ediție a volumului Writing about Literature - Second Edition transformă procesul adesea intimidant al criticii literare într-o conversație accesibilă și structurată. Notăm cu interes capitolul nou introdus în această ediție, „Reading and Writing About Poetry”, care utilizează poemul lui Robert Kroetsch ca unitate de analiză, oferind în plus un interviu cu poetul despre procesul creativ. Această abordare practică este completată de utilizarea constantă a povestirii lui Stephen Crane, „The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”, ca studiu de caz central pentru a demonstra cum se trece de la o reacție personală la o argumentație academică riguroasă.
Structura manualului reflectă o progresie logică de la „personal response” la „field stance”, ghidând studentul prin istoria studiilor de limbă engleză și mecanismele discursului academic. Notăm că W.F. Garrett-Petts menține aici rigoarea metodologică prezentă și în lucrările sale despre cartografierea culturală, precum Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping, unde pune accent pe spațiul imaginației în cercetare. Dacă în acele volume autorul explorează intersecția dintre comunitate și spațiu, în manualul de față el cartografiază teritoriul criticii literare pentru studenții aflați la început de drum.
Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă solidă la Writing Essays About Literature de Katherine O. Acheson pentru cursurile de introducere în filologie sau critică literară. Față de textul lui Acheson, care se concentrează pe un singur poem de William Carlos Williams, volumul de față aduce avantajul unei perspective multimodale, incluzând materiale vizuale și perspective din lingvistică și teoria compoziției. De asemenea, spre deosebire de Write About Poetry de Steven Jackson, care este un ghid specializat pe genul liric, Writing about Literature - Second Edition oferă o viziune de ansamblu asupra disciplinelor ce compun studiile literare moderne.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1551117436
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: BROADVIEW PR
Colecția Broadview Press
Locul publicării:Peterborough, Canada
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm acest manual studenților de la facultățile de litere care doresc să își depășească statutul de cititori pasivi. Cititorul câștigă o metodă clară de a transforma observațiile subiective în eseuri academice convingătoare. Este un instrument esențial pentru înțelegerea convențiilor criticii literare profesionale, oferind modele concrete de analiză atât pentru proză, cât și pentru poezie, într-un format care încurajează participarea activă la dialogul academic.
Descriere
Much of the discussion is structured around ways to analyze and respond to a single work, Stephen Crane’s story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.” This second edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on “Reading and Writing About Poetry”; the chapter uses Robert Kroetsch’s poem “This Part of the Country” as the unit of analysis and includes an interview with the poet about his process.
Recenzii
Much of the discussion is structured around ways to analyze and respond to a single work, Stephen Crane’s story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.” This second edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on “Reading and Writing About Poetry”; the chapter uses Robert Kroetsch’s poem “This Part of the Country” as the unit of analysis and includes an interview with the poet about his process.
“I have used Writing about Literature a number of times to great success. As it progressively takes students from being uninformed readers of a literary text to becoming engaged critics in conversation with advanced scholars, it provides an invaluable framework for introducing students to the fundamental goals and techniques of critical writing, the kinds of issues that critics explore and evidence that they use, strategies for presenting and organizing critical arguments, and the necessity of revision in the writing of criticism. This new edition’s section on writing about poetry will certainly broaden the appeal of the book to students and instructors.” — Paul C. Jones, Ohio University
“Covering topics from close reading to theory, and from visually mapping drafts to final revisions, this book is ideal for introductory courses in literature or composition. But Writing about Literature does more than serve as a guide for students seeking to become careful readers and clear writers: it teaches them how to be students at university and scholars in the field. The addition of poetry in the second edition widens the scope of the book in terms of genre and methodologies, while it retains the deep conceptional framework of the first.” — Emily Kugler, Colby College
Praise for the first edition:
“For every student who has stared hopelessly at a blank screen, waiting for a literary essay miraculously to appear; and for every instructor who has looked upon a set of just-graded student essays with a sense of failure verging on despair—this book offers immediate help.” — Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University
Cuprins
Preface to the Second Edition—to the Instructor
- Initiating Students into Literary Study
A Brief History of English Studies
This Book’s Form and Philosophy
- What Is Academic Discourse?
A Method for Learning Academic Discourse
How to Use This Book
Getting Started: From Personal Response to Field Stance
- Overview
Writing Is Rhetorical
Documenting Your Personal Response
How to Use Your Personal Response
Box 1.1: Field Notes from Critical Theory andPsycholinguistics: “How We Read”
Becoming a Literacy Researcher
New Contexts for Reading and Writing - The Social Stance
The Institutional Stance
The Textual Stance - Box 1.2: Field Notes from Composition Studies: The Five-Paragraph Theme
- The Field Stance
- Summary: Why It Is so Important to Become Aware of All Four Stances
Box 1.3: Field Notes from Linguistics: The Effect of Context on Reading
An Interview with a Literary Critic
Exercises
Reading and Responding to Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comesto Yellow Sky”
- Overview
Response Notes
The Critical Conversation
Box 2.1: Field Notes from Literary Criticism: How Readers Have Responded to Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
“Fielding” Some Questions
Exercises
Writing the Critical Essay: Form and the Critical Process
- Overview
Form
Box 3.1: Field Notes from the Visual Arts: Visual Mapping Exercises
How to Move from an “F” to an “A”: Modelling the Process - Writing and Rewriting
Commentary - The Six Common Places of Literary Criticism
- Contemptus Mundi and Complexity
Appearance/Reality
Everywhereness
Paradigm
Paradox - Critical Approaches
- Formalism: New Criticism and Deconstruction
Reader-Response Criticism
Cultural Criticism - Finding a Place for Your Interpretation in the CriticalConversation
Exercises
Model Essays
- Student Essays
- Michelle Demers
Ryan Miller
Lydia Marston - Professional Essays
- Alice Farley
Katherine Sutherland
Harold H. Kolb, Jr. - Exercises
Reading and Writing about Poetry
- Overview
Some Opening Thoughts about Poetry - “Poetry Should Not Mean / But Be”
- Reading a Poem
- “This Part of the Country”
Entering into the Poem - An Interview with a Poet
Exercises
A Critical Tool Kit for Writing about Poetry - Caedmon’s Hymn
Box 5.1: Field Notes from a Literary Critic: Anglo-SaxonAccentual Meter - Re-entering into the Poem
- Parts of a Poem
Types of Feet
Types of Rhythm
Types of Rhyme
Types of Poetic Device - Integrating Quotations
How to Move from an “F” to an “A”: Modelling theProcess - Commentary
- Box 5.2: Field Notes from a Writing Teacher: Thirteen Ways ofThinking about a Poem
Complete Texts for the Poems Referenced in This Chapter - “Sonnet 116”
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
“On His Blindness”
“To His Coy Mistress”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“My Last Duchess”
“Come Down, O Maid”
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Some Final Words on Writing about Literature
- Four Critics Speak on Their Personal Approaches to Critical Writing
- Alice Farley
Katherine Sutherland
Michael Jarrett
Helen Gilbert
Resources for Further Study
Works Cited
Index