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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction - Second Edition

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-55481-537-1
Verlag: Broadview Press Inc
Erscheinungstermin: 16.09.2021
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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. The new edition has been updated throughout, including expanded coverage of Marxist theory, Disability Studies, and Critical Race Theory.


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  • Artikelnummer: 9781554815371
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-55481-537-1
  • Verlag: Broadview Press Inc
  • Erscheinungstermin: 16.09.2021
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2. Auflage 2021
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 440 g
  • Seiten: 300
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 226 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Chapter 1: Introduction - Theory vs. Criticism
- Close Reading and Literary Studies
- Criticism through the Ages - Literary Studies Comes to the University
- The “Theory” Revolution

- Theory and Criticism Today
- Literary Form
- Literary Characters
- The Importance of Context
- The Identity of the Author
- The Role of the Reader
- Reading as Education, Reading as Entertainment
- Diversity
- The Uses of Theory and Criticism
- Getting Started
Chapter 2: The Ancient World - Plato: The First Literary Theorist - Plato’s Republic
- Plato’s Theory of Forms
- The Allegory of the Cave
- Speech vs. Writing

- Aristotle - Classification
- Narrative Form
- Mimesis
- Rhetoric

- Horace’s Poetic Art
- Quintilian’s Figures of Speech
- Longinus’s Sublime Aesthetics
Chapter 3: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance - Religion and Biblical Interpretation
- Establishing a Canon
- Medieval Scholasticism - The Four Levels of Interpretation

- Maimonides and the Jewish Tradition
- The Secularization of Interpretation
- Boccaccio’s Mythological Studies
- Humanism - The Printing Press
- Protestantism
- The Growth of the Vernacular
- New Forms
- New Rules for Writing

Chapter 4: The Enlightenment - Print Culture
- Addison and Steele and the Birth of Modern Reviewing
- Johnson and His Dictionary
- The French Encyclopedia
- Skepticism
- Political Revolutions
- Abolitionism
- Early Feminism
- Aesthetic Innovations
- Idealism - Kant’s Idealist Philosophy
- Hegel’s Ideas of History

Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century - Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Poetry
- Realism, Nationalism, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel - Varieties of Realism

- Arnold, Taine, and Literary Studies
- Karl Marx
- Decadent Aesthetics - Poe’s Philosophy of Composition
- Art for Art’s Sake

- Nietzsche’s Radical Philosophy
- Fin-de-siècle Fictions
Chapter 6: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Formalist Approaches - The Philological Tradition
- Saussure and Structuralist Linguistics
- Russian Formalism
- Anglo-American Formalisms - Practical and New Criticisms
- Neo-Aristotelianism

- Lévi-Strauss and Structuralist Anthropology
- Barthes and Structuralist Semiotics
- Narratology
- Derrida and Deconstruction - Deconstruction in America

- Formalism Today
Chapter 7: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Historicist Approaches - Historicist Criticism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Historicism to the 1970s
- The “New Historicism” - New Approaches to History and Culture
- Foucault and Discourse
- Greenblatt and the New Historicism

- Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture
- From Bibliography to Book History
- Digital Humanities
Chapter 8: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Political Approaches - Early Marxist Theory and Criticism - The Frankfurt School
- French Marxism
- British Cultural Studies

- Later Marxist Theory and Criticism
- Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies - Said and Orientalism
- Later Postcolonial Theory
- Gates and the African American Tradition
- Critical Race Theory
- The Diversity of Literary Traditions

- Feminist Theory and Criticism - Founding Figures
- Later Feminist Theorists

- Sexuality and Queer Theory - Sedgwick and Butler

- Disability Studies
- Environmental Studies
Chapter 9: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Psychoanalytic Approaches - Freud and Freudian Criticism
- Jungian Criticism
- Jacques Lacan - Julia Kristeva
- Heirs to Lacan

- Phenomenology
- Hermeneutics
- Reader-Response Criticism
- Cognitive Approaches
- Affect Theory
Chapter 10: From Theory to Practice - The Example of Hamlet - Hamlet’s Organic Unity
- Hamlet’s Theatricality
- Hamlet in Literary History
- Hamlet and Class
- Hamlet and Gender
- Hamlet’s Melancholy

- The Example of Frankenstein - Frankenstein and Narratology
- Frankenstein and History
- Frankenstein and Orientalism
- Frankenstein and Homosociality
- The Sublime, the Abject, the Uncanny

- Moving Forward