Each chapter concludes with “Works Cited” and “Recommended Further Reading” sections.
Preface.
1. An Introduction, Theoretically.
Textual Tours.
Checking Some Baggage.
Anything to Declare?
2. Critical Visions: A Selective Tour.
New Criticism.
From Here at The New Yorker, Brendan Gill.
Reader-Response Criticism.
Deconstructive Criticism.
Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies.
Psychological Criticism.
Feminist Criticism.
Other Approaches.
3. Unifying the Work: New Criticism.
The Purpose of New Criticism.
Basic Principles Reflected.
Ars Poetica, Archibald MacLeish.
Radicals in Tweed Jackets.
How to Do New Criticism.
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay.
The Mother, Gwendolyn Brooks.
Preparing to Write.
Shaping.
Drafting.
Practicing New Criticism.
Forgiving my Father, Lucille Clifton.
Questions.
My Father's Martial Art, Stephen Shu-ning Liu.
Questions.
4. Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism.
The Purpose of Reader-Response Criticism.
New Criticism as the Old Criticism.
The Reader Emerges.
Hypertextual Readers.
How to Do Reader-Response Criticism.
Preparing to Respond.
Love Poem #1, Sandra Cisneros.
Making Sense.
Subjective Response.
Receptive Response.
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay.
Preparing to Respond.
A Very Short Story, Ernest Hemmingway.
Preparing to Write.
Shaping.
Drafting.
Practicing Reader-Response Criticism.
Since There's No Help, Michael Drayton.
Questions.
Killing the Bear, Judith Minty.
Questions. 5. Opening up the Text: Deconstructive Criticism.
The Purpose of Deconstruction.
How to Do Deconstruction.
Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats.
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay.
Discovery, Amy Clampitt.
Preparing to Write.
Shaping.
Drafting.
Practicing Deconstructive Criticism.
Cut Through the Anxiety, USC Continuing Education.
London, William Blake.
Questions.
6. Connecting the Text: Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies.
The Purposes of Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies.
Biographical and Historical Criticism.
When I Consider How My Light is Spent, John Milton.
Cultural Studies.
New Historicism.
History as Text.
Marxist Criticism.
Postcolonial Studies.
How to Do Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies
The Writing Process: Sample Essays.
Reunion, John Cheever.
A Biographical Essay.
Preparing toWrite.
Shaping.
Drafting.
A New Historical Essay.
Preparing to Write.
Shaping.
Drafting.
Practicing Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies
Cartoon, Rowland Wilson.
Cartoon, Stan Hunt.
7. Minding the Work: Psychological Criticism.
The Purpose of Psychological Criticism.
How to Do Psychological Criticism.
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, William Wordsworth.
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay.
From Hamlet, William Shakespeare.
Preparing to Write.
Shaping.
Drafting.
Practicing Psychological Criticism.
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, Emily Dickinson.
Questions.
O to Be a Dragon, Marianne Moore.
Questions.
8. Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory
The Purpose of Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory
How to Do Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory.
From A Serious Proposal, Mary Astell.
The Writing Process: A Sample Essay.
To Miss_______ On Her Playing the Harpsichord, Samuel Johnson.
Preparing to Respond.
Shaping.
Drafting.
Revision: Gay and Lesbian Criticism.
Practicing Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory Criticism
Shall I Compare Thee, William Shakespeare.
Questions.
My Life had stood, Emily Dickinson.
Questions.
9. Investigating the Work: Research and Documentation.
The Purposes of Research Papers.
The Topic and the Task.
Finding and Using Resources: Internet, Database, Library.
Background Sources.
Bibliographies and Indexes.
Searching On-line.
Securing Resources, Taking Notes, Finding a Thesis.
Drafting and Revising.
The Writing Process: A Sample Research Paper.
Getting Ideas.
Organizing.
Drafting.
Appendix.
The Canonization, John Donne.
Credits.
Index.
