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Author: M.A.R. Habib

An inspiring and practical introduction to the English major Literary Studies provides students with an accessible overview of everything they need to know to succeed in their English courses—literary terms, historical periods, theoretical approaches, and more. The guide helps students gain the analytical skills that will benefit them in college and as educated citizens after graduation.

Literary Studies A Norton Guide 1st Table of contents:

Part One: Literary Studies

Chapter 1: So What Can I Do with a Degree in English?

Chapter 2: The Nature and Scope of Literary Studies

The Meaning of “Literary Studies”

Literary Studies Today

The Rise of Theory

World Literature

Teaching Literature

The Process of Knowledge

Part Two: Reading Literature

Chapter 3: Basic Reading

What Does “Reading” Mean?

Preliminary Strategies

Preliminary Reading Exercise: W. B. Yeats, “When You Are Old” (1893)

Chapter 4: Critical Reading

Theme–Form–Context Framework

Critical Reading Exercise: W. B. Yeats, “When You Are Old” (1893)

Critical Reading Exercise: Matthew Arnold, “The Study of Poetry” (1880)

Critical Reading Exercise: Frances Burney, “A Mastectomy” (1812)

Part Three: Elements of Literature

Chapter 5: Genre, Part I

Common Elements

Poetry

Analyzing a Lyric Poem: William Blake, “The Tyger” (1794)

Drama

Analyzing Drama: Sophocles, Antigone (ca. 441 B.C.E.)

Fiction

Analyzing Fiction: Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)

Chapter 6: Genre, Part II

Film: Analyzing Gladiator

Television: Analyzing The Big Bang Theory

Digital Genres

Facebook and Other Social Media Platforms

Video Games: Analyzing Super Mario Bros.

Ludology

Chapter 7: Literary Language and Form: Figures of Speech

A Few Reflections

Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy

Synecdoche

Irony

Hyperbole

Oxymoron

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Assonance

Anaphora

Epiphora

Chapter 8: Literary Language and Form: Prosody

Prosody

Scansion

Questions about Meter

Part Four: Historical Periods

Chapter 9: The Ancient World through the Classical Era

The Preclassical Period (ca. 800–ca. 500 B.C.E)

Analyzing a Preclassical Text: Homer, Iliad (ca. 8th c. B.C.E.)

The Classical Period (ca. 500 B.C.E.–17 C.E.)

Elements of Classicism

Analyzing a Classical Text

Chapter 10: The Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages (ca. 476–1050 C.E.)

Analyzing an Early Medieval Text: Augustine, Confessions (ca. 400 C.E.)

Analyzing an Early Medieval Text: Beowulf (ca. 9th c.)

The Later Middle Ages (ca. 1050–1500)

Analyzing a Later Medieval Text: Dante, Inferno (ca. 1307–21)

Analyzing a Later Medieval Text: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

Analyzing Later Medieval Texts: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (ca. 1386–1400)

Chapter 11: From the Early Modern Period to the Late Nineteenth Century

The Early Modern Period

Analyzing Early Modern Literature: Francis Petrarch, Sonnet 333

Analyzing Early Modern Literature: Louise Labé, Sonnet 18

The Seventeenth Century

Analyzing a Metaphysical Poem: John Donne, “The Flea” (1633)

Neoclassicism

Analyzing a Neoclassical Text: Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733–34)

The Enlightenment

Analyzing an Enlightenment Text: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

Romanticism (ca. 1780–1830)

Analyzing a Romantic Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (1819)

The Later Nineteenth Century

Analyzing a Later Nineteenth-Century Text: Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)

Chapter 12: Modernism and Postmodernism

Modernism

Analyzing a Modernist Text: T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)

Postmodernism

Analyzing a Postmodern Text: Samuel Beckett, Endgame (1957)

Chapter 13: Contemporary Literature

Analyzing Contemporary Literature: Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983)

Analyzing Contemporary Literature: Zadie Smith, “The Waiter’s Wife” (1999)

Chapter 14: World Literature

General Strategies

Analyzing World Literature: Confucius, Analects

Analyzing World Literature: Bhavakadevi, Classical Sanskrit Lyric

Analyzing World Literature: The Qur’an

Analyzing World Literature: Yehuda Amichai, “An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion” (1980)

Analyzing World Literature: Bessie Head, “The Deep River” (1977)

Analyzing World Literature: Hanan al-Shaykh, “The Women’s Swimming Pool” (1994)

Analyzing World Literature: Isabel Allende, “And of Clay Are We Created” (1989)

Part Five: Literary Criticism and Theory

Chapter 15: Literary Criticism and Theory, Part I

Historical Periods

Criticism and Theory in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 16: Literary Criticism and Theory, Part II

Structuralism

Poststructuralism

Cultural Studies

Film Theory

Postcolonial Criticism

Global Studies

After Theory

Chapter 17: Using Theory

A Deconstructive Analysis of William Blake’s “The Tyger”

A Marxist Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”

A Postcolonial/Global Studies Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Part Six: Writing about Literature

Chapter 18: The Writing Process

Stages of the Writing Process

General Guidelines

Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay

Chapter 19: Specific Assignments

Exposition

Comparison and Contrast

Argument

Journal Writing

Chapter 20: Documentation and Research

Using and Documenting Sources

The Research Paper

Appendix: Joining an Academic Community

Selected Bibliography

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