A short guide to writing about literature
Barnet, Sylvan
A short guide to writing about literature Sylvan Barnet, William E. Cain. - 12th ed. - Boston Pearson Press 2014 - xxi, 384 p. : ill. 21 cm. - The short guide series .
Writing about literature : a crash course -- The writer as reader : reading and responding -- The reader as writer : drafting and writing -- Two forms of criticism : explication and analysis -- Other kinds of writing about literature -- Literature, form, and meaning -- What is interpretation? -- What is evaluation? -- Writing about literature : an overview -- Writing about fiction : the world of the story -- Graphic fiction -- Writing about drama -- Writing about poetry -- Poems and pictures -- Writing about an author in depth -- Style and format -- Writing a research paper -- Appendix a. two stories -- Appendix b: how much do you know about citing sources? : a quiz with answers -- Index of authors, titles, and first lines of poems -- Index of terms.
English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Criticism--Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Exposition (Rhetoric)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PE1479.C7 2014
A short guide to writing about literature Sylvan Barnet, William E. Cain. - 12th ed. - Boston Pearson Press 2014 - xxi, 384 p. : ill. 21 cm. - The short guide series .
Writing about literature : a crash course -- The writer as reader : reading and responding -- The reader as writer : drafting and writing -- Two forms of criticism : explication and analysis -- Other kinds of writing about literature -- Literature, form, and meaning -- What is interpretation? -- What is evaluation? -- Writing about literature : an overview -- Writing about fiction : the world of the story -- Graphic fiction -- Writing about drama -- Writing about poetry -- Poems and pictures -- Writing about an author in depth -- Style and format -- Writing a research paper -- Appendix a. two stories -- Appendix b: how much do you know about citing sources? : a quiz with answers -- Index of authors, titles, and first lines of poems -- Index of terms.
English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Criticism--Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Exposition (Rhetoric)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PE1479.C7 2014