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Literary analysis
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Literary analysis. Literary analysis involves interpreting a work and arguing for a particular way of understanding it. Such analysis is frequently called "literary criticism," but this phrase does not necessarily mean finding fault with a work of literature. . Introduction.
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Literary analysis involves interpreting a work and arguing for a particular way of understanding it. Such analysis is frequently called "literary criticism," but this phrase does not necessarily mean finding fault with a work of literature.
Introduction • Always begin by identifying the work and the author. Several general sentences precede your specific thesis. You might place the work in the context of other writing by the author. Or you might discuss whether the work is regional or not.
Introduction • There are, for instance, many writers who enjoy setting their novels in particular places, such as the south, west, or the northeast. Stephen King, for instance, sets many of his works in Maine, and William Faulkner created a fictional place known as Yoknapatawpha County in the American South.
Example of introduction • The properties of water make it an excellent literary device, especially when water imagery is used to define the character of a woman. Water ebbs and flows, sparkles, reflects, and evaporates. It can carry a vessel, or take the shape of any vessel that holds it. Water can form deep pools, impenetrable and mysterious, or puddle into shallowness. It wears many faces—snow, sleet, and ice and can fall from the heavens as a light rain or a cold rain or a fierce, driving storm. Water falls from the eyes as tears; it can mirror the self; it can quench thirst. As a method of defining character, Charlotte Bronte uses many of these characteristics of water to capture the elusive Lucy Snowe in the 1853 novel Villette.
Thesis • Interpretation is the central idea that you are trying to communicate, and it is established in your thesis sentence—often (but not always) the last sentence in your introduction. It should be extremely clear and should be a statement, not a question.
Thesis • Every paragraph in the essay should further it and prove it in some way. Additionally, the thesis should give clues about how the paper is organized, and if the paper has a point of view (such as an argumentative paper, which is closely related to literary analysis as the writer is arguing that his or her interpretation be accepted), the writer’s view should be clear.
Example 1 • Stephen King updates the age-old story of Scheherazade to further his plot in Misery.
Example 2 • In Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady, the imagery of architecture is used to create characterization.
Example 3 • Peter Straub’s A Ghost Story and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw are alike in that they both apply characterization in the same ways: they use multiple viewpoints, they use contradictory explanations of the same events, and they emphasize the changeable nature of their characters.
Using quotations • You cannot use a quotation without putting it in context. Your reader must know who is speaking and have an understanding of the situation. In addition, it is important to react to the material you cite. Don't leave your reader hanging, waiting for you to draw conclusions. It is the writer's job to prove the thesis--not the reader's.
Bad example • Without context: • Montague says that Romeo "And private in his chamber pens himself, / Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out" (I.i.138-139).
Good example • In the opening act of Romeo and Juliet, Lady Montague inquires of Romeo's whereabouts, causing Benvolio and Montague to comment about Romeo's recent behavior. Montague, noting Romeo's withdrawn attitude, says: "And private in his chamber pens himself, / Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out" (I.i.138-139). Montague thus implies that Romeo is prone to secrecy--an important characteristic in that it leads directly to tragedy.
Use of quotes • Effective writers use a variety of techniques to integrate quotations into their text • When using a quote, consider: What am I trying to say? Can a passage from the text say it for me? Have I explained the value of the quote?
Bad example – don’t do this! • William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies is about kids stranded on an island. Some of the kids are good and some are bad. “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,” (Golding 180). So I ask you, what causes irresponsible behavior? Ralph is good, but Jack is bad.
This is better, but…. • There are bad kids on the island. One of them is Roger. He drops a boulder on Piggy and kills him. “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,” (Golding 180). This caused Piggy’s death.
Good example • The truest form of wickedness on the island is evident in Roger. He demonstrates hid true depravity when, “with a sense of delirious abandonment, (he) leaned all his weight on the lever,” (Golding 180). Well aware of Piggy’s place beneath him, Roger willingly takes Piggy’s life.
Another good example • Roger’s murder of Piggy clearly illustrates the depths children can sink to without appropriate supervision. As he stood high above Piggy on the mountain, “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,” (Golding 180). His willingness to welcome the moment with “delirious abandonment” clearly demonstrates the level of pleasure that Roger received by committing this horrific act.
So what do you do in this? • Essentially, you are arguing for your interpretation, not so much to persuade your audience to accept your point of view, but “to convince them that it makes sense” (Axelrod and Cooper 566).
This “argument” justifies your way of reading the work by pointing to specific details found in the work and explaining their significance. While you have much freedom with interpretation, you must be able to support your assertions from the text, as shown in the examples in the prior slides.
The primary source is the work itself. You should quote from the work, describe it, summarize it, paraphrase it. This does not mean to retell the plot, but you must give a certain amount of detail to put your assertions in context for the reader.
Do more than just refer to specific passages. Analyze the word choices and point to particular patterns of meaning. Watch closely for repetition in a work. These clues often exist because an author wants his or her reader to interpret the work in a certain way.
Must have 1 other source! • Secondary sources refer to other literary analysis about the primary source or the about the author. You may use secondary sources as a groundwork for your own analysis, or you might agree or disagree with the points in secondary sources. A secondary source might also be a biography of an author or one that offers a social history which puts the era into context.
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