Writing About Literature

by Roberts, Edgar V.

• ISBN13: 9780130814302
• ISBN10: 013081430X
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

"Writing about Literature "serves as a hands-on guide for writing about literature, thus justifying the integration of literature and composition. The reading of literature encourages students to think, and the use of literary topics gives instructors a viable way to combine writing and literary study.

Table of Contents

Full Edition

Preliminary: The Process of Reading, Responding to, and Writing About Literature

Writing About Likes and Dislikes: Responding to Literature

Writing About a Close-Reading: Analyzing Entire Short Poems or Selected Passages from Prose Fiction and Longer Poems

Writing About Character: The People in Literature

Writing About Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Work's Narrator or Speaker

Writing About Plot and Structure: The Development and Organization of Narratives and Drama

Writing About Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Literature

Writing About an Idea or a Theme: The Meanings and the Messages in Literature

Writing About Metaphors and Similes: A Source of Depth and Range in Literature

Writing About Symbolism and Allusions: Windows to a Wide Expanse of Meaning

Writing About Tone: The Writer's Control over Attitudes and Feeling

Writing About a Problem: Challenges to Overcome Reading

Writing About Poetic Form: The Shape of the Poem

Writing Essays of Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast: Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together

Writing a Review Essay: Developing Ideas for General or Particular Audiences

Writing about Film: Drama on the Silver Screen, Television Set, and Computer Monitor

Writing Examinations on Literature

Writing and Documenting the Research Essay: Using Extra Resources for Understanding

Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature

The Use of References and Tenses in Writing About Literature

A Brief Anthology of Works Used for Demonstrative

Essays and References

Stories: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce

The Story of an Hour

The Three Strangers

Young Goodman Brown

The Necklace, (in Chapter 1)

First Confession

The Masque of the Red Death

Poems: Dover Beach

The Tyger

Desert Places

Channel Firing

The Man He Killed

Easter Wings

Virtue

Bright Star

On First Looking Into

Rhine Boat Trip, Irving Layton

Patterns

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Ballad of Birmingham

Sonnet 30, (in Chapter 9)

Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare

The Eagle, (in Chapter 13), Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats

The Boxes

Reconciliation

Lines Written in Early Spring

Plays: The Bear: A Joke in One Act

Trifles

A Glossary of Important Literary Terms

Index of Authors, Directors, First Lines of Poetry, Titles, and Topics

Brief Edition

Preliminary: The Process of Reading, Responding to, and Writing About Literature

Writing About a Close-Reading: Analyzing Entire Short Poems or Selected Passages from Prose Fiction and Longer Poems

Writing About Character: The People in Literature

Writing About Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Work's Narrat

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