Keesey, Ch 2 (Introduction)

Brooks, ''Irony as a Principle of Structure''

In Keesey, Ch 2

Ex 4: The Work and the Reader

Choose any of the four works covered in the textbook, choose whether you are going to write on either formalism or reader-response, and defend a thesis as usual.

The Work and the Reader

McDonald, ''Reading The Tempest''

In Keesey, Ch 2

Kent, ''On the Third Stanza of Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'''

In Keesey, Ch 2

Intertextuality: Arnzen vs. William Carlos Williams

Damned Critic: Arnzen versus William Carlos Williams, Part 2

Michael A. Arnzen, whether he knows or not, has written a poem in the shadow of "The Red Wheelbarrow" and all those other snappy little wonders Williams used to jot on his perscription pad, whiling away the moments between seeing patients as a baby doctor.