The Handy Literature Answer Book
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
Table of Contents
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