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Analyzing Literature

Analyzing Literature

20 Questions to Ask When Analyzing Fiction

Conventions for Writing Literary Analysis

What is literary analysis, exactly?

Common Themes in Literature

Composing Literary Analysis – A Sample of the Process

Analysis vs. Summary

Literary Analysis Terms – Selected Glossary

Applying Literary Terms

Analyzing Pop Culture

Analyzing Pop Culture

Rhetorical Analysis

Elements of Rhetoric: Audience, Purpose, Persona & Rhetorical Appeals

Analyzing Advertisements: Ethos, Logos, Pathos

“I Got No Strings: Pinocchio & Ideology”

Critical Discourse Analysis

Glossary of Terms for Cultural Criticism

The Karate Kid & the Meritocracy Myth

The Meaning of Alone (Discovery Channel)

The Social Commentary Embedded in HGTV’s House Hunters

Semiotics

Symbols & Discourse

Ideology: What is it?

Issues of Representation in Media

Semiotics & the Meaning of the Crystal Craze

The Semiotics of Smartphones & Demons

The Help & the Discourse around Protest Literature

Essay Writing Tips

Essay Writing Tips

Essay Introductions

Do’s and Don’ts of Academic Essays

The Role of Information in Academic Essays

Essay Basics

Body Paragraphs

Common Essay Mistakes to Avoid

Research Basics & Strategies

Thesis Statements

Conclusions

MLA Formatting Rules, Common Mistakes & How to Fix Them

How to Create Citations in MLA

How to Create Citations in MLA

Do’s and Don’ts of Citing in MLA

Common Citation Mistakes

Setting Up & Punctuating In-Text Citations

Sample Citations

Some Tips for Special Citation Situations

Three Parts of a Successful In-Text Citation

A Few Plug-&-Play Citation Templates

Direct Quotations & Paraphrased Citations

Block Quotations

Critical Concepts & Critical Theory

Critical Concepts & Critical Theory

Literature Exploring Subjectivity

Aristotle & Tragedy

What Is Critical Theory?

Feminist Critical Theory

Otherness & “The Other”

Literature as Social Commentary

The Intentional Fallacy

New Criticism

Postcolonial Critical Theory

The Fatal Secret

The Hero’s Journey

The Past Shaping the Present in Literature

New Historicism

Myth Criticism

Analysis in Action

Analysis in Action

Novels

The Help & the Discourse around Protest Literature

Three Big Ideas in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

Archetypes & The Bell Jar

Lahiri’s The Namesake & Social Scripts

Meanings of History in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

Pop Culture

The Karate Kid & the Meritocracy Myth

The Meaning of Alone (Discovery Channel)

The Social Commentary Embedded in HGTV’s House Hunters

Semiotics & the Meaning of the Crystal Craze

The Semiotics of Smartphones & Demons

Short Stories

Madness & Guilt in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Strange Morality in O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” – Marquez & Writing against Interpretation

Reflections on Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist”

Reflections on “The Gun” by Mark Haddon

Reflections on “The Thief” by Guy De Maupassant

Analyzing Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” with Help from Critical Sources

Plays

Arthur Miller’s The Price as a Postmodern Text

A View from the Bridge: Eddie Carbone, Taboo & Transgression

All My Sons: Questioning the Morality of the “Bottom Line”

Three Big Ideas in Wilson’s Fences

Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie and Protest Literature

Instructor Resources

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