R.C. Guches
Fourth Edition
304 pages
$24.95
ISBN 978-0-917962-97-4
A Handbook for the Critical Analysis of Literature
Table of Contents
1. Analyzing Poetry Sample…
2. Contextual Analysis
3. Analyzing Fiction
4. Formalist Analysis
5. Analyzing the Performing Arts
6. Psychological Analysis
7. Archetypal Analysis Sample…
8. Feminist Analysis
9. Eclectic Analysis
Appendix I – Reference sources
Appendix II – Literature for Analysis
Poetry
Candace Cave: Oedipus and us
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
e.e. cummings: pity this poor monster,manunkind
Emily Dickinson: Apparently With No Surprise
T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Purdock
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Richard C. Guches: He Stands Upon His Tower Gazing;
"An Approving God"
Robinson Jeffers: To the Stone Cutters
Amy Lowell: Patterns
Christopher Marlowe: Was This the Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Charlyne Nichols: Birthing a Great River; Equity
Ishmael Reed: I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra
Gary Snyder: What Happened Here Before; Moon, Son of Heaven
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses
Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow
Prose
Katharine Brush: Birthday Party
Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
Stephen Crane: The Open Boat
William Faulkner: The Old People
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown
Ernest Hemingway: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Jack London: To Build a Fire
Edgar Allen Poe: The Masque of the Red Death
John Steinbeck: The Snake
Eudora Welty: Circe
E. B. White: The Door
