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Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Reading and Viewing Play in Its Elements | |
A Conversation on Reading Drama with Marian Seldes, a video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
A First Reading | |
Susan Glaspell, Trifles | |
Going Deeper into Drama | |
a sample student response: James Ness, "Trifles: Song and Stillness" | |
Types of Drama | |
Tragedy | |
Comedy | |
Julianne Homokay, The Wedding Story | |
Going Further: An Interactive Reading | |
An Interactive Reading from Edward Albee, The Zoo Story | |
A Conversation on Writing with Edward Albee, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
Edward Albee, The Zoo Story | |
Brooks Atkinson | |
The New York Times review of the opening in America of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Writing About Drama | |
A Conversation on Writing with Edwin Wilson, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
a sample student essay in progress | |
student paper: Jim Hanks, "Caged or Free? Animals as Metaphor in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story " | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Ancient Greek Drama | |
A Case Study on Sophocles | |
A Conversation on Sophocles with Gregory Nagy, video interview available online@ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
The Oedipus Story | |
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, translated by Robert Fitzgerald | |
Greek Tragedy | |
A Checklist: Reading Greek Tragedy | |
Getting Started: A Research Project | |
Further Suggestions for Writing and Research | |
Some Sources for Research | |
William Shakespeare | |
A Conversation on Shakespeare with Ralph Williams, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
Hamlet | |
The Elizabethan Theater | |
Language On Stage | |
Shakespeare's Confounding Diversity | |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | |
Othello | |
A Checklist: Reading William Shakespeare | |
Getting Started: A Research Project | |
Further Suggestions for Writing and Research | |
Some Sources for Research | |
Modern Drama | |
A Conversation on Writing with Arthur Miller, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman | |
From the Palace to the Living Room, or, The Origins of Modern Theater | |
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp | |
The Real and Surreal | |
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie | |
The Bard of Pittsburgh | |
August Wilson, Fences | |
An Actor's Perspective on Modern Theater and August Wilson | |
A Glimpse at the Work of Ruben Santiago-Hudson | |
A Conversation on Writing with Ruben Santiago-Hudson, video interview available online @ xxx | |
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, stills from Lackawanna Blues | |
Reading Modern Drama | |
Suggestions for Writing about Modern Drama | |
Contemporary Theater | |
A Conversation on Writing with Arthur Kopit, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e | |
Arthur Kopit, Wings | |
Experimental Theater | |
Joan Ackermann, The Second Beam | |
David Henry Hwang, The Dance and the Railroad | |
David Ives, Moby Dude, OR: The Three-Minute Whale | |
Denise Chavez, Guadalupe X Three | |
Getting Started: A Research Project | |
Suggestions for Writing about Contemporary Theater | |
A Handbook for Writing from Reading | |
Critical Approaches to Literature | |
Formalist Criticism | |
The Theory of the Formal Method | |
Biographical Criticism | |
Dickinson’s Literary Background | |
Historical Criticism | |
Mark Twain | |
Psychological or Psychoanalytic Criticism | |
The Poetic Process | |
Archetypal, Mythic, or Mythological Criticism | |
The Archetypes of Literature | |
Marxist or Economic Determinist Criticism | |
Literature and Revolution | |
Structuralist Criticism | |
Fairy Tale Transformations | |
New Historicism | |
The Introduction to the Power of Forms in the English Renaissance | |
Feminist Criticism and Gay and Lesbian Studies | |
Introduction to On the Politics of Literature | |
Reader-Response Criticism | |
Interplay between Text and Reader | |
Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction | |
Death of the Author | |
Cultural Studies | |
Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Postculturalism | |
Ethnic Studies and Post-Colonial Studies | |
Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars | |
Writing from Reading | |
Why Read Literature? | |
Why Write from Reading? | |
Reading to Write | |
From Summary to Interpretation | |
Developing an Argument | |
Developing an Argument for Robert Pinsky’s “Shirt” | |
Forming a Defendable Thesis | |
Creating a Plan | |
Drafting Your Paper | |
Revising Your Draft | |
Sample Revised Introductory, Body, and Conclusion Paragraphs | |
Revised Draft of a Student’s Research Paper on Langston Hughes | |
A Final Note on Editing and Formatting Your Paper | |
Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
Types of Information Requiring Documentation | |
Common Knowledge | |
Use Sources to Support Your Commentary | |
Acknowledge Your Sources | |
Format Quotations to Avoid Plagiarism | |
Format Paraphrases to Avoid Plagiarism | |
Format Summary to Avoid Plagiarism | |
Common Writing Assignements | |
Writing in a Digital Age | |
Writing across the Curriculum | |
Summary | |
A Sample Precis of Herman Melville’s Short Story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” | |
Analysis | |
A Sample Explication of William Blake’s Poem “Garden of Love” | |
A Sample Card Report | |
Synthesis | |
A Sample Comparison-Contrast Paper on “The Role of Grendel in Beowulf the Epic and the Movie” | |
Critique | |
The Essay Exam | |
Writing the Research Paper, avoiding plagiarism, and Documenting Sources | |
Understanding Research Today | |
Choosing a Topic | |
Finding and Managing Print and Online Sources | |
Finding Visual Sources | |
Evaluating Print and Online Sources | |
Developing a Thesis and Organizing the Paper | |
Revising | |
Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
A Student’s Research Paper on Langston Hughes and Jazz Poetry | |
MLA Documentation Style Guide | |
Documenting Sources using MLA Style | |
MLA Style: In-Text Citations | |
MLA Style: List of Works Cited | |
Glossary of Terms | |
Credits | |
Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry | |
Directory for MLA Documentation Style Guide: Inside Back Cover | |
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