Almost every book or article begins with a literature review. It can take the form of a paragraph<\/strong>, as in my article, \u201cOuting T. S. Eliot\u201d [Criticism<\/em> 47:1 (Winter 2005): 7-30]:<\/p>\n The argument that Eliot might have been gay was first put forth by John Peter in a 1952 reading of \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d which, without mentioning homosexuality, interpreted the poem as an elegy for a dead male lover.[i]<\/a> Eliot had his solicitors suppress the article, which was reprinted in 1969 after Eliot\u2019s death, with an additional postscript by Peter.[ii]<\/a> It is in this postscript that Peter associates the speaker with Eliot, identifying his beloved as Jean Verdenal, a young Frenchman whom Eliot befriended while living in Paris in 1910. In a 1978 book, T. S. Eliot\u2019s Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons<\/em>, James E. Miller, Jr. pursues Peter\u2019s argument further, arguing that the poem (and just about everything else Eliot wrote) is a grief-stricken response to Verdenal\u2019s death on the shores of Gallipoli in WWI.[iii]<\/a> Seymour-Jones\u2019 biography incorporates both Peter\u2019s and Miller\u2019s arguments, attempting to bolster their theory using newly available material from the Letters of T. S. Eliot<\/em> (1988) and The Inventions of the March Hare<\/em> (1996).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A literature review may be distilled to a few sentences<\/strong>, as in this article on racial silencing in Contempo<\/em> magazine<\/a>, co-authored by Davidson students:<\/p>\n No one asks or explains why Contempo dropped the subject of Scottsboro. Instead the tendency\u2026 has been to turn attention to the next \u201ccontroversy,\u201d \u201cbig scoop,\u201d or \u201cpublishing coup.\u201d1<\/sup> Contempo has been commemorated as \u201ca small but brilliant literary gold mine,\u201d as a \u201csomewhat daring southern literary magazine . . . determined to involve black writers\u201d and \u201cbecome a southern outlet for literature of the Harlem Renaissance,\u201d and most recently as a publication \u201cnot explicitly edited by African Americans\u201d that explored race issues.2<\/sup> But while the magazine\u2019s literary coups and political courage have attracted scholarly interest, the subsequent silencing of racial protest in the magazine has gone unnoticed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A literature review may also take the form of a \u201cpurposeful summary<\/strong>\u201d of a single work of criticism, \u201cbalancing what the original author is saying with [your] own focus\u201d (see They Say\/I Say<\/em>, 3<\/a>). Preparing a secondary source report will help you write an accurate, purposeful summary.<\/p>\n Your literature review must include:<\/p>\n After you complete the SSRs, write a literature review (750-1250 words) summarizing the works and showing how they form a critical conversation. It may help you to try Mark Gaipa’s technique of drawing a diagram of a ballroom, and positioning each of your critics in relation to each. Refer to his article on “Breaking into the Conversation” for explanation and examples of this and other strategies for mapping and entering a critical conversation (scroll down to PDFs section in Readings<\/a>). Here’s a sample ballroom illustration from his article:<\/p>\n As in your annotated bibliographies, do not just describe your sources in the literature review (e.g., \u201cVogel makes an argument about queer poetics in Langston Hughes\u2019s poetry\u201d); instead, summarize the argument (e.g. \u201cVogel argues that Langston Hughes\u2019s blues poems depict the after hours club in ways that animate forms of queer subjectivity made possible through this unregulated time-space complex.\u201d Copy and paste your literature review & SSRs into the same post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" category = AG Lit Review A. Definition A \u201cliterature review\u201d is a review of the existing scholarship and criticism on your topic. Literature reviews are required in scholarship in every field. 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