Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Audience and the Literary Analysis Essay -- The Importance of Audience -- The Audience for the Literary Analysis Essay -- Works Cited -- 2: Analytical Paragraphs -- Initial Analysis -- Analytical Paragraphs and Their Three Components -- Claims -- Evidence -- Analysis -- Common Problems in Analytical Paragraphs -- Awkward repetition -- Confusion about what makes meaning -- Working with Analytical Paragraphs -- A sample analytical paragraph -- Integrating Quotations from Literary Texts
Guidelines for integrating quotations -- Works Cited -- 3: Theme -- Defining Theme -- Debating Theme -- Debating with the text: agreeing and disagreeing with themes -- Debating about texts: agreeing and disagreeing about themes -- Identifying Themes -- Identifying themes in drama and prose fiction -- Identifying themes in poetry -- Identifying complex themes -- Effective Statements of Theme -- A checklist for effective statements of theme -- Works Cited -- 4: Argument Structure -- The Difference between a Logical Sequence and a List -- Sample outlines -- Organizational Paragraphs and Titles
Introductory paragraphs -- Working with introductory paragraphs -- Transitional paragraphs -- Working with Transitional paragraphs -- Concluding paragraphs -- Working with concluding paragraphs -- Titles -- 5: Types of Literary Analysis Essays -- Close Readings -- Passage Analysis Essays -- Introductions to passage analysis essays -- The structure of passage analysis essays -- Working with passage analysis essays -- Comparative Literary Analysis Essays -- The purpose of comparative literary analysis essays -- Introductions to comparative literary analysis essays
The structure of comparative literary analysis essays -- Working with comparative literary analysis essays -- Literary Analysis Research Essays -- Literary analysis research essays using critical sources -- Introductions to literary analysis research essays using critical sources -- Working with critical sources -- Literary analysis research essays using historical sources -- Working with historical sources -- In-Class Essays -- Works Cited -- Appendix 1: MLA Format -- The Appearance of the Essay -- Documentation: Works Cited List -- Works cited entries: print sources
Works cited entries: online sources -- Works cited entries: other non-print sources -- Documentation: In-Text Citations -- Formatting Quotations -- Short quotations -- Long quotations -- Changing quotations -- Works Cited -- APPENDIX 2: Sample Essays -- 1. A Literary Analysis Essay on a Short Story -- 2. A Literary Analysis Essay on a Poem -- 3. A Literary Analysis Essay on a Play -- 4. A Literary Analysis Essay on a Novel -- 5. A Literary Analysis Essay on a Film -- 6. A Passage Analysis Essay -- 7. A Comparative Literary Analysis Essay
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8. A Literary Analysis Research Essay using Critical Sources
