English studies
Subtitle: reading, writing, and interpreting texts
By: Toby Fulwiler, William A. Stephany.
Contributors: Stephany, William A.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: English philology -- Study and teaching.; English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.; Reading (Higher education)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PREFACE; title: INTRODUCTION TOBY FULWILER & WILLIAM A. STEPHANY; title: The Way You're Supposed to Read; title: Reading to Understand; title: The Field of English Studies; title: Part I : READING AS A WRITER; title: Chapter 1. Exploring with Journals Toby Fulwiler; title: Academic Journals; title: Personal Journals; title: Writing about Reading; title: Asking and Answering Questions; title: Seeing; title: Connecting and Extending; title: Surprising Yourself; title: Conversing; title: Suggestions for Journal Writing; title: Chapter 2. Exploring Fiction Ghita Orth & Allen Shepherd; title: Once upon a time; title: The Nature of Fiction; title: Character; title: Plot; title: Point of View; title: Setting; title: Symbolism; title: Style; title: Theme; title: Reading a Story; title: Tea Leaves (Janet Burroway); title: What Makes Good Fiction Good?; title: Works Cited; title: Chapter 3. Exploring Poetry Sidney Poger; title: Coda (David Huddle); title: The Nature of Poetry; title: The Techniques of Poetry; title: Rhythm and Meter; title: Rhyme; title: Alliteration; title: Imagery; title: Comparison; title: Diction; title: Structure; title: Point of View; title: Responding to Poetry; title: Works Cited; title: Chapter 4. Exploring Drama James Howe; title: Drama as Performance; title: Reading Drama; title: Writing About Drama; title: Writing about Character; title: Examples of Character Interpretation; title: Writing About Language; title: Dramatic Conventions; title: Metadrama; title: Television and Film; title: Chapter 5. Exploring the Essay Mary Jane Dickerson & Richard; title: Sweterlitsch; title: The Essay as Conversation; title: Conversations with the Self; title: Conversations with Others; title: Voices That Shape the Essay; title: Voices of Meditation; title: Voices of Response; title: Voices of Dissent; title: Voices of Explanation; title: Voices of Storytelling; title: Other Voices; title: Finding Your Own Voice; title: Chapter 6. Exploring Visual Texts Tom Simone; title: Visual Texts; title: Narrative Film as an Extension of Literature; title: Beginning to Read a Visual Text; title: George Lucas's Star Wars; title: Mise en Scene; title: The Single Shot; title: Theme, Image, and Symbol; title: Analyzing a Visual Text; title: Suggested Further Readings; title: Part II : READING AS EXPLORATION; title: Chapter 7. Why Study Literary Theory? Lisa Schnell; title: The English Major as Anthropologist?; title: Expanding Our Field of View; title: The Pleasure of the Text; title: The Moral Conversation; title: Two Questionsfor Student Writing; title: Brief Annotated Bibilography; title: Chapter 8. Feminist Readings, Feminist Writing Mary Louise Kete; title: The Short Answer; title: The Long Answer; title: Suggested Further Readings; title: Chapter 9. Expanding the Canon: A Multicultural Perspective; title: Helen Scott; title: Eurocentrism and the Canon; title: The "Culture Wars"; title: Postcolonial Literature; title: Towards a Global Culture; title: Works Cited; title: Recommended Reading; title: Chapter 10. A Reader's Response Nancy Welch; title: No Apology Necessary; title: Reader Response: An Overview; title: Reader Response in Action; title: So Where Does It All End?; title: Acknowledgment; title: Works Cited; title: Chapter 11. Reading Films as Acts of Reading Andrew Barnaby; title: Reading as a Writer, Writing as a Reader; title: Revisionary Reading and the Impulse to Film; title: A River Runs Through It; title: Listening and Seeing versus Reading; title: Final Thoughts; title: Questions to Ask When Comparing Films to Books; title: Works Cited; title: Part III : WRITING AS A READER; title: Chapter 12. Writing Critical Essays Sarah E. Turner; title: Being Critical: Describe the Text; title: My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun (Emily Dickinson); title: Being Critical: Question the Text; title: Being Critical: "So What?"; title: Being Critical: Pulling It All Together; title: Establishing a Critical Dialogue; title: Suggestionsfor Writing Critical Essays; title: Works Cited; title: Chapter 13. Writing Personal Essays Mary Jane Dickerson; title: Creating a New Text; title: My Story; title: Personal Essays; title: Autobiography; title: Autobiographical Questionaire; title: Conversation; title: Exploration; title: Engaging the Creative Process; title: Open-Ended; title: Works Cited; title: Chapter 14. Imaginative Writing and Risk Taking William A. Stephany; title: "Rules"for Risk Taking; title: Read Carefully; title: Maintain a Consistent Voice; title: Revise and Edit; title: Creative Choices; title: Imitation of Form: Close Parody; title: More General Parodies; title: Imitation of Modern Literary or Cultural Forms; title: Changing the Form; title: Rewriting the Ending; title: Creating Dialogues; title: Some Final Examples; title: The Experimental Tradition; title: Works Cited; title: That Time of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold (William Shakespeare); title: Chapter 15. Writing with Research Richard Sweterlitsch; title: Getting Started; title: Gathering Information First-Hand; title: Seeking Second-Hand Sources; title: Pulling the Paper Together; title: Giving Credit; title: Published Works Cited; title: Chapter 16. A Web of One's Own Katherine Anne Hoffman; title: Research; title: Evaluating Internet Sources; title: Writing and Composing; title: Publishing; title: Chapter 17. Examining the Essay Examination Tony Magistrale; title: Writing Under Pressure; title: Preliminary Steps and a Checklist of Practical Advice; title: Types of Information Requests; title: Planning; title: Structuring Essay Answers; title: The Take-Home Examination; title: Using Class Notes and Journals; title: Revising and Editing; title: Beginning at the End: Ending at the Beginning.