Contemporary literary theory

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Contemporary literary theory

edited by G. Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow

Macmillan Education, 1989

  • : pbk

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This series of essays has been designed to analyze the relationship between contemporary literary theory and critical and pedagogical practice. The authors have selected 12 of the most prominent, influential and far-reaching theoretical positions currently available, such as hermeneutics, archetypal criticism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism and Marxism. The aim of the text is to provide discussions that straightforwardly describe the primary features, background, strategies and implications of those theories which are most influential at the present time. The essays are directed specifically towards the student and non-specialist requiring detailed and accessible introductions to theoretical positions, and are offered not as a substitute for reading the theories themselves, but as an aid in doing so. The book derives from the recognition that as prominent, influential and important as theory has become, it has not significantly affected classroom teaching.

Table of Contents

  • Literary theory, critical practice and the classroom, G.Douglas Atkins
  • the new criticism - then and now, John R.Willingham
  • archetypal criticism, Richard F.Hardin
  • creating the world - structuralism and semiotics, Lori Hope Lefkovitz
  • whirl without end - audience-oriented criticism, Peter J.Rabinowitz
  • like the glaze on a katydid-wing - phenomenological criticism, Robert Magliola
  • hermeneutics, Joel Weinsheimer
  • deconstruction - critical strategy/strategic criticism, Danny J.Anderson
  • reading after Freud, David Willburn
  • the critical quilt - alternative authority in feminist criticism, Cheryl B.Torsney
  • political criticism, Michael Ryan
  • dialogic criticism, Don Bialostosky
  • genealogical critique - Michel Foucault and the systems of thought, Karlis Racevskis.

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