The Critic's Hornbook: Reading for Interpretation

A. E. Housman addressing Alchemy analysis and interpretation analysis of speaker analytic reading Andrea del Sarto begin Chapter character Cheer and Joy concept context Cornish game hens critical essay deal describe discover discussed Doll's House Donne Donne's dramatic audience dramatic situation English exists footnotes Gulliver's Travels Helmer Hemingway Hemingway's housewife instance irony Keats's kind literary criticism literature look Love's Alchemy luck metaphor modern Moveable Feast narrative narrator's Nora novel passage perception play plot poem poetry possibilities of symbolic Pride and Prejudice primary meaning principle prose questions quotation quoted rabbit's foot Randall Jarrell reader refer relation relationship scene sense sentence simply someone sonnet speaker or narrator story style suggest supermarket symbolic meaning symbolic structure syntax talking tell thematic theme thing tion Tom Jones tone Ulysses W. B. YEATS Wallace Stevens wild rice woman words and phrases writing young