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ENGL 2307

ENGL 2307. 4 February 2014. MLA format. Double spaced Heading in the body of the paper Student Name Instructor Name Class Date (4 February 2014) Title is required Citation list is Works Cited Citation for online resources

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ENGL 2307

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  1. ENGL 2307 4 February 2014

  2. MLA format • Double spaced • Heading in the body of the paper • Student Name • Instructor Name • Class • Date (4 February 2014) • Title is required • Citation list is Works Cited • Citation for online resources • Irving, Washington. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Project Gutenberg. The Internet Archive. 15 April 2013. Web. 20 Jan. 2014.

  3. Summary • An overview • Plot based—tell us what happened • Focus on the important points • Our thoughts are absent—what I think about it doesn’t matter* • Sample summary: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/superscore03-b99196700z1-243274141.html *This is only true for pure summary. If your essay blends summary into

  4. Practice • In five sentences, write a summary of your favorite movie. • Identify the movie in the first sentence. • Give the important plot information. • Share the summary with your neighbor. Has he/she seen the movie before? Does she agree with your summary?

  5. My summary • In Bringing up Baby starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, David Huxley tries to gain money to support his museum, but he is continuously thwarted by Susan Vance. Susan is in love with him and wants to keep him from getting married to another woman. In order to support her plan, she offers to help him get the money because the woman giving it away is her aunt. However, David must first help Susan with the leopard her brother sent from South America. The leopard escapes, Susan tells “anyone anything, but won’t tell” David, and the comedy doesn’t stop.

  6. A warning • Summarizing from a summary is a VERY bad idea. • While your opinion should not be part of a summary, your analysis is. • The distance from the original text can be/is often noticeable. • Sites like Sparknotes, GradeSaver, eNotes, etc. are problematic. Often they are written by graduate students (like me…but not me) who are trying to impress people. You get the strange and weird interpretation/focus.

  7. Analysis • Relies on questioning the text • Why does this happen? • Why is this true? • Why do I believe this? • How can this work? • What does this mean? • A product of critical reading/thinking • Relies on the text • Must support ideas from the text • Quotes (strongest…but don’t over use) • paraphrasing

  8. Analysis Example • Ichabod Crane represents a literature of the past. • Interest in witchcraft and Cotton Mather’s book (published in 1692) • “He was, moreover, esteemed by the women as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's ‘History of New England Witchcraft,’ in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.” • Superstition • “and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils” • Attraction to blend of old and new • “She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. “

  9. Henry James • 1842-1916 • First short story published in 1864 • Ex-patriate since shortly after the Civil War ended (first trip to Europe 1869; moved back and forth from then on, generally returning to America for visits) • Prolific writer—multigenre (short story, play, novel/la) • Highly influential friends • William Dean Howells • Dante Gabriel Rossetti • George Eliot • Edith Wharton

  10. Works Cited • Burh, Megan. “Biography.” The Henry James Resource Site. Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. 23 July 2003. Web. 2 February 2014. • Esch, Deborah and Jonathan Warren. “Henry James: A Chronology.” The Turn of the Screw. By Henry James. New York: Norton, 1999. 263-5. Print.

  11. “The Turn of the Screw” • The Haunter: Quint and Miss Jessel • The Haunting: distanced viewing, fixed on children • The Haunted: The governess; Miles and Flora • The Laying of the Ghost: Flora leaves, Miles dies

  12. Group Work • In small groups, you will analyze the following ideas. Please have one person write notes (put all of your names on it). • The Narrator • The Setting • Flora • Miles • Quint • Miss Jessel • The Framing Narrative

  13. Cell phone quiz • Explain the framing narrative. Who is telling the nanny’s story? Why? • Discuss the narrator. Who is the narrator? Do we trust him/her?

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