The Handy Literature Answer Book

Editor/Author Burt, Daniel S. and Felder, Deborah G.
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-57859-635-5
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Image Count: 157
Book Status: Available
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The Handy Literature Answer Book: Understand and Enjoy Meanings, Symbolism, and Signs in Great Works is an engaging, easy-to-read look at literature basics such as themes, symbols, context, and other literary devices.

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Table of Contents

  • PHOTO SOURCES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • WHAT IS LITERATURE AND HOW TO READ IT
  • WHY READ LITERATURE & HOW NOT TO READ IT
  • Don't Read Literature Like You Do Ordinary Writing
  • Don't Just Read Literature, Reread It
  • Don't Read Literature Passively
  • Don't Speed-Read Literature
  • Don't Read Literature Only to Identify
  • Don't Read Literature for Meaning (First)
  • HOW TO READ POETRY
  • An Analysis of Emily Dickinson's “I Like to See It Lap the Miles”
  • An Analysis of William Butler Yeats's “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
  • An Analysis of Tennyson's “Ulysses”
  • HOW TO READ SHORT STORIES
  • “The Gift of the Magi”
  • “The Story of an Hour”
  • Nineteenth-Century Short Stories
  • Anton Chekhov
  • James Joyce
  • Analysis of Joyce's “Araby”
  • American Short Story Innovations in the Twentieth Century
  • HOW TO READ THE NOVEL
  • Moll Flanders
  • The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • Women Characters in Early Novels
  • Jane Austen
  • Emma
  • The English Novel after Jane Austen
  • Charles Dickens
  • Analysis of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers
  • Serial Novels
  • Victorian Novels
  • How Are Novels Constructed?
  • George Eliot's Middle-march
  • The Modern Novel
  • James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • The Novel and Modernism
  • Ralph Ellison’ Invisible Man
  • Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • Subgenres of the Novel
  • HOW TO READ DRAMA
  • Greek and Roman Drama
  • Elizabethan Drama and Shakespeare
  • How to Read a Shakespearean Play: Analyzing A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Early European Drama
  • Reading Neoclassical Drama—Molière's Tartuffe
  • Reading Neoclassical Drama—Racine's Phèdre
  • Seventeenth-Century Theater Continued
  • Reading a Modern Drama—Ibsen's A Doll's House
  • Reading a Modern Drama—Checkhov's The Cherry Orchard
  • Modern Drama
  • Reading a Modern Drama—Brecht's Mother Courage
  • Reading a Modern Drama— Beckett's Waiting for Godot
  • Contemporary Drama
  • Reading Contemporary Drama—Wilson's Fences
  • Reading Contemporary Drama—Kushner's Angels in America
  • HOW TO READ LITERARY NONFICTION
  • Analysis of Montaigne's “Of Smells”
  • Essays
  • Autobiography and Memoir
  • Analysis of Langston Hughes's “Salvation”
  • Analysis of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
  • Critical Approaches to Literature
  • Psychological and Psychoanalytical Criticism
  • Marxist Critical Approach
  • Structuralism
  • Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction
  • Historical Criticism and New Historicism
  • Gender Studies
  • Cultural Studies and Post-Colonial Criticism
  • Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory
  • Choosing an Approach
  • GLOSSARY OF ESSENTIAL LITERARY TERMS
  • LISTING OF SELECTED ESSENTIAL POEMS, STORIES, NOVELS, AND DRAMAS
  • FURTHER READING