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 \n1.General Observations17  \n2.Text Study in Practice20  \nB.Matters of Genre:What Are We Dealing With?   29  \n1.An Overview of Genre 29  \n2.Genre Characteristics in Practice33  \nC.Source Study:Did Earlier Writings Help This WorkCome into Being?46  \n3.Historical and Biographical Approaches 51  \nI.General Observations 51  \nII.Historical and Biographical Approachesin Practice 54  \nA.“To His Coy Mistress”   54  \nB.Hamlet 57  \nC.Huckleberry Finn61  \nD.“Young Goodman Brown”   66  \nE.“Everyday Use”69  \nF.Frankenstein 73  \n# 4.Moral and Philosophical Approaches 77\n\nI.General Observations 77  \nⅡ.Moral and Philosophical Approaches in Practice 79  \nA.“To His Coy Mistress”  79  \nB.Hamlet80  \nC.Huckleberry Finn 81  \nD.“Young Goodman Brown”   82  \nE.“Everyday Use”  84  \nF.Frankenstein 87  \n# 5.The Formalist Approach90\n\nI.Reading a Poem:An Introduction to the FormalistApproach 90  \nII.The Process of Formalist Analysis:Makingthe Close Reader 93  \nII.A Brief History of Formalist Criticism 96  \nA.The Course of a Half Century 96  \nB.Backgrounds of Formalist Theory 97  \nC.The New Criticism100  \nIV.Constants of the Formalist Approach:  \nSome Key Concepts,Terms,and Devices 102  \nA.Form and Organic Form 102  \nB.Texture,Image,Symbol 105  \nC.Fallacies 106  \nD.Point of View 107  \nE.The Speaker's Voice 109  \nF.Tension,Irony,Paradox 110  \nV.The Formalist Approach in Practice 111  \nA.Word,Image,and Theme:Space-Time Metaphorsin\"To His Coy Mistress\"   111  \nB.The Dark,the Light,and the Pink:Ambiguityas Form in“Young Goodman Brown”  116  \n1.Virtues and Vices 118  \n2.Symbolor Allegory?  120  \n3.Loss upon Loss 121  \nC.Romance and Reality,Land and River:The Journey as Repetitive Formin Huckleberry Finn 123  \nD.Dialectic as Form:The Trap Metaphorin Hamlet 129  \n1.The Trap Imagery 129  \n2.The Cosmological Trap 130  \n3.“Seeming\"and \"Being”   1132  \n4.“Seeing\"and\"Knowing","cbCaishjgF7g7ZCx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaishjgF7g7ZCx","pdf",16262440,450,"English","# Getting Started: The Precritical Response\n# First Things First: Textual Scholarship, Genres, and Source Study\n# Moral and Philosophical Approaches\n# The Formalist Approach\n# The Psychological Approach: Freud\n# Mythological and Archetypal Approaches\n# Feminisms and Gender Studies","[{\"question\":\"What critical approaches does the handbook cover?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses textual scholarship, genres and source study, moral and philosophical criticism, formalism, psychological criticism (Freud), mythological and archetypal approaches, and feminisms and gender studies.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the book organized for learning?\",\"answer\":\"It moves step by step from early, precritical response to deeper analytical methods, with each major section including definitions, key concepts, and examples in practice.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the handbook include applied readings, not just theory?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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