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Writing about Literature - Second Edition: A Guide for the Student Critic de W.F. Garrett-Petts

Writing about Literature - Second Edition: A Guide for the Student Critic

Autor W.F. Garrett-Petts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2013
Writing about Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary student and scholarly essays, and visual material. It offers students an insider’s guide to the language, issues, approaches, styles, assumptions, and traditions that inform the writing of successful critical essays, and aims to make student writers a part of the world of professional literary criticism.
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781551117430
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

Recenzii

Writing about Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary student and scholarly essays, and visual material. It offers students an insider’s guide to the language, issues, approaches, styles, assumptions, and traditions that inform the writing of successful critical essays, and aims to make student writers a part of the world of professional literary criticism.
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

Acknowledgements
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
Preface to the Second Edition—to the Student: An Introduction to the Critical Conversation
  • What Is Academic Discourse?
    A Method for Learning Academic Discourse
    How to Use This Book
CHAPTER 1
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
CHAPTER 2
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
CHAPTER 3
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
CHAPTER 4
Model Essays
  • Student Essays
    • Michelle Demers
      Ryan Miller
      Lydia Marston
  • Professional Essays
    • Alice Farley
      Katherine Sutherland
      Harold H. Kolb, Jr.
  • Exercises
CHAPTER 5
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!”
CHAPTER 6
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
Appendix: Language Use in English Studies

Resources for Further Study

Works Cited

Index