Practising Theory and Reading Literature: An IntroductionRoutledge, 22.04.2016 - 218 Seiten Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. |
Inhalt
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Chapter 1 AngloAmerican Criticism | 17 |
Chapter 2 Russian Formalism | 35 |
Chapter 3 Structuralism | 47 |
Chapter 4 Poststructuralism | 73 |
Chapter 5 Readerresponse Criticism | 101 |
Chapter 6 Marxist and Feminist Criticism | 133 |
Exercises | 170 |
| 201 | |
| 204 | |
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Practising Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction Raman Selden Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
approach argued assumptions audience Barthes Biff characters Cleanth Brooks Clov common-sense concepts consciousness context conventions culture David Lodge deconstructive defamiliarisation devices discourse dominant example experience expressed F. R. Leavis father feminist Feminist Criticism fiction Hamlet Hamm Hester horizon human I. A. Richards ideas identity theme ideology implied interpretation language Lear Leavis linguistic literary criticism literary texts Literary Theory literature London look Lukács male Marxist meaning metaphor metonymy Milton modern moral narrative narrator never novel object passage perspective play poem poem's poet poetic poetry possible poststructuralist produce psychological Puritan question reader reader-response reader-response critics reading realistic Reception Theory represent Roland Barthes Romantic Russian Formalist scarlet letter sense sexual Shakespeare's signifier social story strategies structuralist structure text's textual things thou thought tradition Truscott unconscious unity values viewpoint Willy woman women word-play words Wordsworth's writing