Literary Theory

Author: Julie Rivkin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118718313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1640

Book Description
The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to Postcolonialism Expanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant. Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introductions and a comprehensive glossary of terms

Literary Theory

Author: Michael Ryan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119090024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the full range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science studies. Introduces students to a variety of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture Demonstrates how the varying perspectives on texts can lead to different interpretations of the same work Features numerous updates that include new literary texts, new and expanded sections Represents the ideal accompaniment to the upcoming Third Edition of Literary Theory: An Anthology

Beginning Theory

Author: Peter Barry
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719062681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and updated from the original edition first published in 1995, Peter Barry has incorporated all of the recent developments in literary theory, adding two new chapters covering the emergent Eco-criticism and the re-emerging Narratology.

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Author: Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393602951
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
More comprehensive and up-to-date than ever before

Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction

Author: Anne H. Stevens
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770485619
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Feminisms

Author: Robyn R. Warhol
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1238

Book Description
"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Author: Raman Selden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.

Critical Theory Since Plato

Author: Hazard Adams
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1304

Book Description
This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show students how critical theory has evolved and progressed over time.

Literary theory

Author: Jonathan Culler
Publisher:
ISBN: 019285318X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description

Cultural Theory

Author: Imre Szeman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 140518082X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as Pierre Bourdieu’s “Forms of Capital” (1986), Gilles Deleuze “Postscript on Societies of Control” (1992), and Fredric Jameson’s “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study —the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity Section introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author A large annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works for each author and topic promotes further research and discussion Features a useful glossary of critical terms