《学术英语写作教程》课件Chapter 05 Writing about Texts.ppt

5.5.3 Sample feminist reading of a text Figure 32 (pp.79-80) discusses a feminist reading of stories that feature “bad girls” such as Calixta in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm.” More specifically, Emily Toth summarizes Betina Entzminger’s feminist argument in Belle Gone Bad: White Southern Women Writers and the Dark Seductress: Southern writers such as Kate Chopin use “bad girls” to say that “women have brains as well as beauty, and that they (we) will continue to use our talents in whatever channels are open to us.” (please look at Figure 32 on pages 79-80 in the textbook.) 5.5.4 Sample race-gender-class analysis of a text Figure 33 (p.80) discusses race, gender, and class in Kate Chopin’s stories. The author, Janet Holtman, acknowledges problems with the novel The Awakening but argues that Chopin is sensitive to the interplay of race, class, and gender in her local color short stories. (please look at Figure 32 on page 80 in the textbook.) 5.5.5 Examples: Text-based research problems Following are some questions to stimulate more brainstorming if you plan to do a text-based study. ※ Can a biographer be an artist in Virginia Woolf’s view? Does she practice (in her writing Roger Fry’s biography) what she preached in earlier essays about biography and biographers? ※ J.R.R. Tolkein, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was dismissed by critics of modern fiction, even though he was taken more seriously by medievalists. Has Tolkein been overlooked by modernists? ※ Few critics take children’s literature seriously, perhaps because some of it is so didactic, perhaps because some of it is so simple and transparent. Should Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland be read in college and studied as serious literature? What features of Alice in Wonderland warrant serious study? ※ How does Zora Neale Hurston make use of “light” imagery in the short story “Sweat”? ※ Wordsworth introduces a historical consciousness in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, making use