Hamlet
Hamlet Critical Essay
Criticial Lenses: New Criticism, Feminist, Archetypal, Historical-Biographical, Marxist, Psychoanalytical, Deconstructuralism
Finding Literary Criticism
1. Finding the best article:
· Do NOT choose the first article you come across—Choose wisely!
· Consider how well the article reads. It may have complex ideas, but it is it comprehensible to you? Some articles can be quite obtuse.
· Look for an article that discusses theme and/or style, so that you can make your whole paper cohesive (tied together).
2. Your Hamlet book: the essays in the front and back of the Folger edition of the book may be useful.
3. Through PCN’s library: Your best source will be the Gale database.
4. At the Metropolitan library: Using your library card, access the Gale Artemis database.
5. Find or buy a Norton Critical Edition: Most, if not all, of your books come in a Norton edition, which has the text of your book and a critical section at the end. The Norton editors have already combed through the available literary criticism and selected articles they think are worthwhile. You’d just need to figure out which articles will best work for you.
6. Online—be careful and use reputable sources. No Wikipedia.
· UCSB’s Voice of the Shuttle for Humanities Research
i. http://vos.ucsb.edu/ (Literary Theory under contents links.)
· John Hopkins University
Tips on Paraphrasing
Notebook
Journal entries:
1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9
**You can usually find the information for the journal entry in this Prezi or from a classmate.
Reading Log:
1.1.1-80
Other:
Definition of Historical Criticism