R.C. Guches Fourth Edition 304 pages $24.95 ISBN 978-0-917962-97-4
A Handbook for the Critical Analysis of Literature
Table of Contents
1. Analyzing Poetry Sample…
2. Contextual Analysis
3. Analyzing Fiction
4. Formalist Analysis
5. Analyzing the Performing Arts
6. Psychological Analysis
7. Archetypal Analysis Sample…
8. Feminist Analysis
9. Eclectic Analysis
Appendix I – Reference sources
Appendix II – Literature for Analysis
Poetry Candace Cave: Oedipus and us Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan e.e. cummings: pity this poor monster,manunkind Emily Dickinson: Apparently With No Surprise T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Purdock Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Richard C. Guches: He Stands Upon His Tower Gazing; "An Approving God" Robinson Jeffers: To the Stone Cutters Amy Lowell: Patterns Christopher Marlowe: Was This the Face That Launched a Thousand Ships Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress Charlyne Nichols: Birthing a Great River; Equity Ishmael Reed: I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Gary Snyder: What Happened Here Before; Moon, Son of Heaven Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow
Prose Katharine Brush: Birthday Party Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour Stephen Crane: The Open Boat William Faulkner: The Old People Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown Ernest Hemingway: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Jack London: To Build a Fire Edgar Allen Poe: The Masque of the Red Death John Steinbeck: The Snake Eudora Welty: Circe E. B. White: The Door