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Week 1: The Study of
Literature
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This unit explores the formal study of
literature through an analysis of short fiction. You are asked to
read a short-story by contemporary American writer, Marshall Bennett Connelly.
Materials in this unit introduce information you need about short stories,
literary criticism, and strategies for reading literature actively and
writing about it.
Begin by exploring the following documents
before reading the short story, "from 'Three Dirges.'"
Readings
Why Study Literature?
Genre: The Short
Story
How to Read a Short
Story Critically
How to Write an
Analytical Essay about Short Fiction
Some Types
of Literary Criticism
The Reading:
"from 'Three Dirges'"
Supplemental Materials
for "from 'Three Dirges'"
Sample Essays
"Tragedy and the
Ethic of Responsibility"
"The Rhetoric of
Pathos in the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
Study
Guide for Week 1
A Glossary
for Unit 1
Writing Assignment
Exercise 1 is due at the end of Week
2.
Online Resources
next
week
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