handouts

Supplemental Course Materials

Notes on the Midterm (PDF)

Important Passages from Longinus (not in Richter) (PDF)

Walter Pater, "Conclusion" to The Renaissance (PDF)

Oscar Wilde, "Preface" to The Picture of Dorian Gray (PDF)

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Study Questions and Notes

Plato

Aristotle

Horace and Longinus

Johnson

Hume

Kant

Kant Study Questions

An Overview of Kant's Model of the Mind (PDF)

Notes on Kant's Critique of Judgment (PDF)

Some Excerpts from Kant's Critique of Judgment (drawn from Richter and Pluhar) (PDF)

Wordsworth and Coleridge

Arnold

Nietzsche

Freud and Psychoanalytic theory: Some Links

On Freud's Uncanny (University of Iowa Wikipage)

Lecture Notes on Freud's Uncanny (University of Washington)

Foucault and Structuralism

Marx

Woolf and Feminism

New Historicism

Contemporary Critical Approaches

New Criticism Explained

Psychoanalytic Approaches

Thinking Marxist about Texts

Deconstruction Simplified

Feminist Literary Criticism

New Historicist Approaches

Postcolonial Studies

Writing and Rhetoric

Everything You Should Have Learned in English 101

Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Three Ways to Persuade

Walvoord and McCarthy on Good/Better/Best

Organizing an Essay: Using Representative Cases

Organizing an Essay: Cause and Effect

What to Avoid and What to Do (Developing an Essay)

Use of Text (MLA Citation)

MLA Citation Examples

Writing Effective Sentences

Writing Effective Paragraphs

Notes to Style

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Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 7