Gabrielle Boetcher
11/17/2019
Paper 3: Article Analysis
English 271 Fratz
Johnson, Allan -. "Thresholds of Interpretation: Identifying, Producing, and Supporting with The Turn of the Screw." CEA Critic 77.2 (2015): 196-210. Web. https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.uww.edu:9443/article/587917
Allan Johnson’s peer-reviewed article on his own analysis of The Turn of the Screw and teaching it to his own students provides us with a very detailed description and usage guide for the exact type of literature analytical model that he will be using to lead us towards his students’ and his own understanding of The Turn of the Screw
called Identify-Produce-Support. This particular analytical model for literature pieces allows for the literature piece’s readers in the audience to firstly identify one central idea in a particular text out of all of the other different ideas presented in the text (if they are less discussed or less prevalent in the text, they are less likely to be discussed in this model, as well), then produce a well-supported claim with evidence from the text about what the text itself is saying about that particular idea, and then provide evidence that supports all of that claim from the piece itself. Johnson also mentions how exactly he came across this particular analytical model, which was when he was a student himself. At age nineteen, when he was working with a mentor, the mentor suggested he try this model to help him make his analysis writing better. And Johnson then mentions how helpful the model has been in guiding him through analyzing almost every piece of literature he has come across in his student career and his teaching career. Johnson has even continued to develop this analytical model further when he was teaching in other countries, Then, Johnson uses this method of looking at literature to analyze the story. He also describes how he teaches this analytical model to his current students using The Turn of the Screw
, and how multiple perspectives can be seen from the use of this model paired with the story.
