Critical theory today : a user-friendly guide
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Critical theory today : a user-friendly guide
（Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 2070）
Garland Pub., 1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis, this guide can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to the study of primary theoretical works. It aims to motivate readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their personal understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. The text offers a "how-to" book for undergraduate and graduate students new to critical theory and for lecturers who want to broaden their repertoire of critical approaches to literature.
Table of Contents
- Psychoanalytic Criticism The Unconscious and the Defenses * Dreams * Dream Symbols * Death and Sexuality * Psychoanalysis and Literature * A Psychoanalytic Reading of The Great Gatsby
- * Marxist Criticism Marxist Premises * Ideology and Human Behavior * Marxism and Literature * A Marxist Reading of The Great Gatsby * Feminist Criticism Feminist Premises * Multicultural Feminism * Feminism and Literature * A Feminist Reading of The Great Gatsby * New Criticism "The Text Itself": Literary Language and Organic Unity * A Close Reading of Lucille Clifton's "There Is a Girl Inside" * Objective Criticism and the "Single Best Reading" * A New Critical Reading of The Great Gatsby * Reader-Response Criticism Transactional, Subjective, Psychological, and Social Theories * Affective Stylistics * Defining Readers * A Reader-Response Analysis of The Great Gatsby * Structuralist Criticism Structural Linguistics and Anthropology * Semiotic Theory * Structuralist Approaches to Literature *A Structuralist Reading of The Great Gatsby * Deconstructive Criticism Deconstructing Language and Human Identity * Deconstructing Literature * Deconstructing Frost's "Mending Wall" * A Deconstructive Reading of The Great Gatsby * New Historical and Cultural Criticism New Historicism: History, Subjectivity, and Discourse * Cultural Criticism: Politics, Power, and Popular Culture * New Historicism * Cultural Criticism, and Literature * A New Historical Reading of The Great Gatsby * Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Criticism The Marginalization of Lesbians and Gay Men * Lesbian Criticism/Gay Criticism/Queer Criticism * Shared Features of Lesbian Gay, and Queer Criticism * A Queer Reading of The Great Gatsby * Postcolonial and African American Criticism Postcolonial Identity, Debates, and Approaches to Literature * African American Literary History, Tradition, and Current Trends * Shared Features of Postcolonial and African American Criticism * A Postcolonial Reading of The Great Gatsby * Courses for Adoption Critical Theory * Literary Criticism/Theory, Literature and Philosophy
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