Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Follow this link:


www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html

More on literary approaches

Here is a very good link for critical approaches:

www1.assumption.edu/users/ady/hhgateway/gateway/approaches.html#New Criticism/Formalism

More reading group work today!

The Story of an Hour

Thank you for all your comments from yesterday!

Today we're going to read and discuss Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour. Continue doing your group readings and keep thinking about your "paper" for presentation to your group.

Here is the link for the story:

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/storyofhour.html

Group discussions

Please POST a summary of your group's discussion today. Group leader gets credit for the post.

*****Please post for credit a short response about the literary approach you can most identify with. Why do you like this approach? What is interesting about this way of looking at fiction, poetry, and prose?

I will use these posts to provide you with daily participation credit and more grades this marking period.

Thurs. Reading/Discussion Groups

Please POST a summary of your group's discussion today. Group leader gets credit for the post.

*****Please post for credit a short response about the literary approach you can most identify with. Why do you like this approach? What is interesting about this way of looking at fiction, poetry, and prose?

I will use these posts to provide you with daily participation credit and more grades this marking period.

Wharton/ Cather/ Chopin

continue working in groups, discussing the books you have selected.

Literary criticism:

Look up

Formalism
Feminist criticism
Marxist criticism
Psychoanalytic criticism
Historicism
New Criticism
Practical criticism