Writing about Literature, Second Edition: A Guide for the Student Critic - Softcover

W.F. Garrett-Petts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551117436 ISBN 13: 9781551117430

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2013

Synopsis

W.F. Garrett-Petts’s respected “insider’s guide” to writing like a literary critic now includes a new chapter on writing about poetry.|Writing about Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary student and scholarly essays, and visual material. It offers students an insider’s guide to the language, issues, approaches, styles, assumptions, and traditions that inform the writing of successful critical essays, and aims to make student writers a part of the world of professional literary criticism. Much of the discussion is structured around ways to analyze and respond to a single work, Stephen Crane’s story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.” This second edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on “Reading and Writing About Poetry”; the chapter uses Robert Kroetsch’s poem “This Part of the Country” as the unit of analysis and includes an interview with the poet about his process.

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About the Author

W.F. (Will) Garrett-Petts is Professor of English at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

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Writing about Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary student and scholarly essays, and visual material. It offers students an insider's guide to the language, issues, approaches, styles, assumptions, and traditions that inform the writing of successful critical essays, and aims to make student writers a part of the world of professional literary criticism.

Much of the discussion is structured around ways to analyze and respond to a single work, Stephen Crane's story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky." This second edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on "Reading and Writing About Poetry"; the chapter uses Robert Kroetsch's poem "This Part of the Country" as the unit of analysis and includes an interview with the poet about his process.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551117436
• ISBN 13: 9781551117430
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208