Literary Theory
Author | : Terry Eagleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 019285318X |
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Author | : Terry Eagleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 019285318X |
Author | : Anne H. Stevens |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2015-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1770485619 |
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.
Author | : David H. Richter |
Publisher | : Bedford/st Martins |
Total Pages | : 1655 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780312101060 |
02 The most comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of major documents in literary criticism and theory from Plato to the present, with a highly praised critical apparatus, including introductions, headnotes, bibliographies, and glosses.
Author | : Charles E. Bressler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
The second edition of Literary Criticism by Charles E. Bressler is designed to help readers make conscious, informed, and intelligent choices concerning literary interpretation. By explaining the historical development and theoretical positions of eleven schools of criticism, author Charles Bressler reveals the richness of literary texts along with the various interpretative approaches that will lead to a fuller appreciation and understanding of such texts.
Author | : Ann B. Dobie |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2011-01-03 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781111342081 |
Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, THEORY INTO PRACTICE, International Edition provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses. This brief, practical introduction to literary theory explores core theories in a unique chronological format and includes an anthology of relevant fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to help bring those theories to life. Remarkably readable and engaging, the text makes even complex concepts manageable for those beginning to think about literary theory, and example analyses for each type of criticism show how real students have applied the theories to works included in the anthology. Now updated with the latest scholarship, including a full discussion of Ecocriticism and increased emphasis on American multicultural approaches, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides an essential foundation for thoughtful and effective literary analysis.
Author | : Vassilis Lambropoulos |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780887062650 |
The ten topics contained in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory reflect contemporary theoretical interests and guide the reader through fundamental questions, from the formation to the uses of theory, and from the construction to the interpretation of literature. The selected essays cover a wealth of scholarship from both the United States and Europe. They go beyond traditional categories by focusing on issues rather than writers or critical movements, thus providing a forum for the continuing discussion of what theory is and does.
Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2012-05-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486144674 |
Essential anthology of Poe's critical works reviews works by Dickens, Hawthorne, many others. Includes Theory of Poetry ("The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," "The Poetic Principle"). Introduction.
Author | : Raman Selden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Steven J. Venturino, PhD |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1615643273 |
From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single theory, critic, or issue, accompanied by concrete examples for applying the concepts and engaging suggestions for related literary readings. Following a section on the foundations of literary theory, the book is organized thematically, with an eye to the best way to develop a real, working understanding of the various theories. Cross-references are particularly important, since it's through the interaction of examples that readers most effectively advance from basic topics and arguments to some of the more specialized and complicated issues. Each chapter is designed to tell a complete story, yet also to reach out to other chapters for development and debate. Literary theorists are hardly unified in their views, and this book reflects the various traditions, agreements, influences, and squabbles that are a part of the field. Special features include hundreds of references to and quotations from novels, stories, plays, poems, movies, and other media. Online resources could also include video and music clips, as well as high-quality examples of visual art mentioned in the book. The book also includes periodic "running" references to selected key titles (such as Frankenstein) in order to illustrate the effect of different theories on a single work.
Author | : Pelagia Goulimari |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135053014 |
This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.