Getting Started

Syllabus

Summaries of Critical Approaches to Literature

Elements of Poetry

Elements of Story

Poetry

Example of Interpretation of Poetry: "The Inhumanist Poetics of Robinson Jeffers"

First Essay: Interpreting Poetry

Fiction

Discussion Questions for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Second Essay: Interpreting Fiction

Non-Fiction

Example of Interpretation of Non-Fiction: "Terror Through the Eyes of Latin American Novelists"

Third Essay: Interpreting Non-Fiction

Drama

Example of Interpretation of Drama: "The Tempest in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery"

Quoting Shakespeare

Final Essay: Interpreting Drama