Literary Criticism

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Chapters

• Preface
• Introduction
• Reading as a Literary Critic

• Reading Novels
• Reading Plays
• Reading Poetry

• Schools of Criticism

• Formal Literary Criticism
• Historical Literary Criticism
• Psychological Literary Criticism
• Feminist Literary Criticism
• Archetypal Literary Criticism

• Poems for Close Reading with Questions
• Shakespeare Our Contemporary
• Comparison Exercises
• Shakespeare Statistics
• Glossary
• Authors and Contributors

Further Reading

How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster, HarperCollins 2003

Linguistic Criticism, Roger Fowler, Oxford 1986

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Raman Selden, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1985

Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature, Laurie Rozakis, 1999

Barron's EZ101 Study Key - English Literature, Benjamin Griffith, Barron's