Literary theory : the basics
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Literary theory : the basics
(The basics)
Routledge, 2001
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Description based on 2004 reprinting
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index
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Providing the ideal first step in understanding the often bewildering world of literary theory, this text is an easy to follow and clearly presented introduction to this fascinating area.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Reading for meaning 1. practical criticism Chapter 2: Reading for form I. formalism and early structuralism, 1914-1960 Chapter 3: Reading for form II. french structuralism, 1950-1975 Chapter 4: Political Reading. the 1970s and 1980s Chapter 5: The Poststructuralist Revolution. Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism Chapter 6: Postructuralism continued. Foucault, Lacan, french femenism Chapter 7: Literature and culture. The new historicism and cultural imperialism Chapter 8: Postcolonial criticism and theory. Chapter 9: Sexuality, literature and cultural materialism. Chapter 10: Ecocriticism.
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