Methodology sheets for literature
September 13th, 2015 by Bénédicte Meillon
Dear L3 Students,
Please find here below the methodology sheet used since the L1 to analyze a text. This hand-out recaps the foundations of the methodology, tools and concepts you should be using when reading and interpreting a text, before you even start working on an actual commentary:
How to analyze a text and prepare a Commentary
Here is also a methodology sheet providing clear guidelines to structure a commentary, once you have thoroughly analyzed the effects and meanings produced by the texts and its various mechanisms:
And, finally, here are guidelines for how to work on literary essays (the French “dissertation”)
I hope this helps,
As announced last Friday, we will go through the methodology of essay writing together next week.
Please bring your questions to class,
Best
BM