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

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

Fowler, Roger (1986). Linguistic Criticism,. Oxford.

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

Rozakis, Laurie (1999). Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature. Harvester Wheatsheaf.

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