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Feature Summary- Three Complete Works: Contexts for Criticism includes the complete text
of Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Melville's Benito Cereno,
and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper.
- Introductory Essays: Each chapter opens with an introductory essay that
explains the assumptions and interests of the critics who work in a particular
critical context, traces briefly the role the context has played in the history
of criticism, and offers an assessment of its place in the contemporary scene.
- Theoretical Essays: Two theoretical essays representing strong contemporary
arguments for the critical theory appear in each chapter. The essays are written
by well-known critics who are themselves committed to the approach.
- Application Essays: Each chapter concludes with four essays applying some
version of the critical approach to the same four texts: The Tempest, "Ode
on a Grecian Urn," Benito Cereno, and The Yellow Wallpaper. These widely
studied works, representing different periods and genres, are rich enough
to have inspired a variety of critical comment and short enough to be read
and reread in conjunction with the critical essays.
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