Doing literary criticism
Subtitle: helping students engage with challenging texts
By: Tim Gillespie ; foreword by Leila Christenbury
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Portland, Me.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781571108425
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Books and reading; Literature; High school students; Reading (Secondary)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started: classroom practices that support the study of literary criticism; title: Reader response criticism: beginning with personal meaning and classroom community; title: Biographical criticism: examining the relevance of writers' lives and identities; title: Historical criticism: weighing the historical context of works of literature; title: Psychological criticism: using literature to understand human behavior; title: Archetypal criticism: finding the mythic resonance in texts; title: -; title: Genre criticism: exploring classifications and contexts; title: Moral criticism: probing the moral and ethical dimensions of literature; title: Philosophical criticism: investigating the intersection of literature and philosophy; title: Feminist criticism: interrogating gender issues; title: Political or advocacy criticism: engaging with social justice issues through literature; title: Formalist criticism: analyzing writing craft; title: Putting it all together: a conclusion and commencement.