Literary Criticism
An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/e presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this book explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism and provides a clear methodology for writing essays according to each school's beliefs and tenets.
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- Utgivningsdatum2011-08-31
- Mått155 x 230 x 18 mm
- Vikt500 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor352
- Upplaga5
- FörlagPearson Education
- ISBN9780205212149
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- Foreword1 Defining Criticism, Theory, and LiteratureListening to a ConversationEavesdropping on a Literature ClassroomCan a Text Have More Than One Interpretation?How to Become a Literary CriticWhat is Literary Criticism?What is Literary Theory?Making Meaning from TextThe Reading Process and Literary TheoryWhat is Literature?Literature Theory and the Definition of LiteratureThe Function of Literature and Literary TheoryBeginning the Formal Study of Literature2 A Historical Survey of Literary TheoryPlato (C. 427 – 347 B.C.E.)Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E)Horace (65-8 B.C.E.)Longinus (First Century C.E.)Plotinus (204-270 C.E.)Dante Alighiere (1265-1321)Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)Sir Philip Sydney ((1554-1586)John Dryden (1631-1700)Joseph Addison (1672-1719)Alexander Pope (1688-1744)William Wordsworth (1770-1850)Perce Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893)Matthew Arnold (18822-1888)Henry James (1843-1916)Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-175)Modern Literary Criticism3 Russian Formalism and New CriticismRussian FormalismBridging the Gap Between Russian Formalism and New CriticismApplying Russian Formalism to a Literary TextNew CriticismHistorical DevelopmentAssumptionsMethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay “The Formalists Critics, Cleanth Brooks4 Reader-Oriented Criticism Historical DevelopmentI.A. RichardsLouise M. RosenblattAssumptionsMethodologyStructuralismPhenomenologyHans Robert JaussWolfgang IserSubjective CriticismNorman HollandDavid BleichA Two-Step MethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay: “The Case for Reader-Response Analysis,” Stanley Fish5 Modernity and Postmodernism: Structuralism and Deconstruction ModernityPoststructuralism and PostmodernismModernity and ModernismStructuralism: Its Historical Development Pre-Sausseren LinguisticsSaussure’s Linguistic RevolutionThe Structure of LanguageLangue and ParoleSaussure’s Redefinition of a WordAssumptions of StructuralismMethodologies of StructuralismClaude Levi-StraussRoland BarthesVladimir Propp and NarratologyTvetan Todorov and Gerard GenetteJonathan CullerA Model of InterpretationFrom Structuralism to Poststructalism: DeconstructionDeconstruction: Its Historical DevelopmentDeconstruction: Its BeginningsDerrida’s Starting Place: StructuralismDerrida’s Interpretation of Saussure’s SignAssumptions of Deconstruction Transcendental SignifiedLogocentrismBinary OppositionsPhonocentrismMetaphysics of PresenceMethodology Acknowledging Binary Operations in Western ThoughtArche-writingSupplementationDifferanceDeconstructive Suppositions for Textual AnalysisDeconstructive: A New Reading StrategyAmerican DeconstructionistsQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay “What Is Criticism?” Roland BarthesCritical Essay “Convention and Meaning” Jonathan Culler6 Psychoanalytic Criticism Historical DevelopmentSigmund FreudModel of the Human Psyche: Dynamic ModelEconomic ModelTypographical ModelsFreud’s Pre-Oedipal Development PhaseThe Oedipus, Castration, and Electra ComplexesThe Significance of DreamsLiterature and PsychoanalysisCarl G. JungNorthrop FryeJacques LacanLacan’s Model of the Human PsycheLacan and Textual AnalysisThe Present State of Psychoanalytic CriticismAssumptionsMethodologiesQuestions and AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay: “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry,” C.G. Jung7 Feminism Historical DevelopmentVirginia WoolfSimone de BeauvoirKate MilletFeminism in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980sElaine ShowalterGeographical Strains of FeminismAmericanFrenchPresent-day Feminist CriticismsEcofeminismAssumptionsMethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay: “Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, Politics of Feminist Literary Criticism,” Annette Kolodny8 Marxism Historical DevelopmentKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsRussia and MarxismGeorg LukaesThe Frankfurt SchoolAntonio GramsciLouis AlthusserMarxist Theorists TodayAssumptionsMethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay: “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory,” Raymond Williams9 Cultural Poetics or New Historicism A New-Critical LiteratureOld HistoricismThe New HistoricismHistorical DevelopmentCultural MaterialismNew HistoricismAssumptionsMichael FoucaultClifford GeertzText, History, and InterpretationWhat Cultural Poetics RejectsWhat Cultural Poetics Does and AcceptsMethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay: Arthur Kinney10 PostcolonialismPostcolonialism: “The Empire Writes Back”Historical Development of PostcolonialismAssumptions of PostcolonialismMethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponseCritical Essay: “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”11 African-American CriticismHistorical Development, Assumptions, and MethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesCritical Essay: “Talking Black: Critical Signs of the Times,” Henry Louis Gates Jr.12 Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian CriticismHistorical Development and AssumptionsQueer Critical TheoristsQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponseCritical Essay: “Epistemology of the Closet”13 EcocriticismWhat is Ecocriticism?Historical DevelopmentAssumptionsMethodologyQuestions for AnalysisCritiques and ResponsesReadings on Literary Criticism “The Formalist Critics” Cleanth Brooks“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” Jacques Derrida“Heroic Enthocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature” Charles Larson“Queer Theory” Annamarie Jagose“John Keats and Nature: An Ecocritical Inquiry” Charles Ngiewih TEKEGlossaryCreditsIndex