Beyond Acceptable: Writing Effective Academic Essay Titles
April 01, 2013
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Students,
One of the weakest things I frequently discover in your academic papers are the titles themselves. We should spend a little more time revising titles before we print the final drafts and submit them to our professors.
Some things you should never do include . . .
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The Neurotic Mind: Psychoanalytical Criticism
March 26, 2013
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Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. ISBN:0-631-23200-1.Lynn, Steven. Texts and Contexts: Writing about Literature with Critical Theory. 5th ed. New York: Pearson, 2008. ISBN: 032144907X.
Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. ISBN: 1405106964.
Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0415974100.
Fry, Paul H. Theory of Literature. New Haven: Yale UP, 2012. ISBN: 9780300180831
[These are our primary course texts on theory. The Rivkin and Ryan anthology contains your collection of primary sources about literary theory as written by the pioneers and theorists who helped develop them. Use the articles from the anthology (and any others I publish for you on our course libguides page) as your primary sources for your final mock conference papers].
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Following the Thread in Aronofsky's _The Fountain_
March 20, 2013
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