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Literary Analysis Notes
The document provides guidance on how to perform literary analysis. It explains that literary analysis involves reducing a work into its elemental parts and examining how those parts create the overall meaning. The goal is to decipher the central theme or idea, not to simply summarize the plot. Students are instructed to closely read texts, find evidence, determine meanings, and analyze how literary elements like figures of speech and components of prose and poetry shape that meaning. Examples of visual artworks are also provided to demonstrate analyzing techniques for non-literary works.
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- 2. Literary Analysis ■ LiteraryAnalysis: reduce a work into its elemental parts and analyze how those parts create the meaning of the work. ■ The goal of literary analysis is to decipher the meaning (theme or central Idea) of a particular work. ■ Analyze, Never Summarize!!! ■ Examine, Never Report!!!! ■ Perform a close reading, gather evidence, determine meaning, and analyze how the elements of literature create that meaning. ■ Some of the “Elements of Literature” are listed on the “Wheels” that follow (next four slides).
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- 6. Literary Analysis ■ Lookup and understand each of the literary terms listed on the wheels. ■ In your discussions and in your papers, use the literary elements around the parameter of the wheel to show HOW the work means what you say it means. ■ The word “how” is important here. You should never summarize. Only analyze. Tell me how the elements work in the mind of the reader. Don’t just tell me, “there is an image on line five.” HOW does the image affect the reader, and HOW does the image create meaning. ■ Print out a copy of the wheels and refer to them throughout the semester. ■ These are also available on Blackboard as a handout titled “Wheels.”
- 7. Analysis Analyze, Never Summarize!!! Examine,Never Report!!!! Visual Arts Analysis Examples
- 8. Analysis of VisualArts ■ Lines ■ Colors ■ Shapes ■ Subject(s) ■ Brush Stokes ■ Symmetry ■ Lighting Analyze, Never Summarize!!! Examine, Never Report!!!!
- 9. JMW Turner The FightingTemeraire Towed to her Last Resting Place JMW Turner
- 10. Nude Descending aStaircase by Marcel DuChamp
- 11. Woman, I Willem deKooning
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- 14. Boatmen on Volga,1870-1873 Efimovich Repin
- 15. Boatmen on Volga,1870-1873 Efimovich Repin
- 16. Lavender Mist byJackson Pollock
- 17. Joseph Mallord WilliamTurner Rain, Steam, and Speed Joseph Mallord William Turner
- 18. Theodore Gericault The Raftof the Medusa Theodore Gericault
- 19. William Blake The Ancientof Days (God as an Architect) 1794
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- 21. Napoleon Crossing TheAlps Jacques-Louis David
- 23. The Nightmare JohannHeinrich Fuseli, 1781
- 24. Mounted Officer ofthe Imperial Guard Théodore Géricault, 1812
- 25. Portrait of AmbroiseVollard 1910 Pablo Picasso
- 26. Herbert James Draper- Ulysses and the Sirens
- 27. Girl Before aMirror 1932 Pablo Picasso
- 28. Nude & StillLife Ca. 1931 Pablo Picasso
- 29. The Old Guitarist 1903 PabloPicasso
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- 31. Composition V byVasily Kandinkky
- 32. Christ in theWilderness, 1871 Ivan Kramskoi
- 33. Christ in theWilderness, 1871 Ivan Kramskoi
- 34. Banjo Lesson, 1893Henry Tanner
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- 36. The Song ofthe Lark 1884 Jules Breton
- 37. Ferrymen Playing Cards,1847 George Bingham
- 38. The Bookworm, 1850 CarlSpitzweg
- 39. The Stone-Breakers, 1849Gustave Courbet Destroyed 1945; formerly in the Dresden State Art Collections, Germany
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