Literary Analysis and Criticism

Literary Analysis and Criticism

Summarizing

• plot, setting, narrator, character, conflict, change, connection, reflection, language, and theme.

Literary Criticism

George Orwell

• Politics and the English Language
  • essay on honesty and clarity of language
  • argues against euphemisms and euphemistic language
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Thomas C. Foster

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
  • Themes, advice, and quotations
    • "Fiction and poetry and drama are not necessarily playgrounds for the overly literal" (p. << to cite)
    • "No literary Christ figure can ever be as pure, as perfect, as divine as Jesus Christ. Here as elsewhere, one does well to remember that writing literature is an exercise of the imagination. And so is reading it. We have

to bring our imaginations to bear on a story if we are to see all its possibilities; otherwise it’s just about somebody who did something." (p. << to cite)

• • online sources:
    • Cleveland.rrps.net full text
    • Mseffie.com full text
    • LitCHarts.com