Literary Theory The Complete Guide

Author : Mary Klages
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472592767

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Literary Theory: The Complete Guide by Mary Klages Pdf

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time. Literary Theory: The Complete Guide includes: · Accessible chapters on all the major schools of theory from deconstruction through psychoanalytic criticism to Marxism and postcolonialism · New chapters introducing ecocriticism and biographies · Expanded and updated guides to feminist theory, queer theory, postmodernism and globalization · New and fully integrated extracts of theoretical and literary texts to guide students through their use of theory · Accessible coverage of major theorists such as Saussure, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari and Bhabha Each chapter now includes reflection questions for class discussion or independent study and a cross-referenced glossary of key terms covered, as well as updated guides to further reading on each topic. Literary Theory: The Complete Guide is an essential starting point for students of critical theory.

Author : Mary Klages
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826490735

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Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mary Klages Pdf

This Guide introduces theory in a clear, accessible way, focusing on the major approaches and theorists.

Author : Steven J. Venturino, PhD
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781615643271

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism by Steven J. Venturino, PhD Pdf

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 : Anne H. Stevens
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781770485617

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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction by Anne H. Stevens Pdf

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 : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473611931

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Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction by Sara Upstone Pdf

Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and writing, literary theory fosters new avenues into the text. It allows you to make informed comments about the language and form of literature, but also about the core themes - concepts such as gender, sexuality, the self, race, and class - which a text might explore. Literary theory gives you an almost limitless number of texts to work into your own response, ensuring that your interpretation is truly original. This is why, although literary theory can initially appear alienating and difficult, it is something to get really excited about. Imagine you are standing in the centre of a circular room, with a whole set of doors laid out around you. Each doorway opens on to a new and illuminating field of knowledge that can change how you think about what you have read: perhaps in just a small way, but also perhaps dramatically and irrevocably. You can open one door, or many of them. The choice is yours. Put the knowledge you gain together with your own interpretation, however, and you have a unique and potentially fascinating response. Each chapter in Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction covers a key school of thought, progressing to a point at which you'll have a full understanding of the range of responses and approaches available for textual interpretation. As well as focusing on such core areas as Marxism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, this introduction brings in recent developments such as Eco and Ethical Criticism and Humanisms.

Author : Raman Selden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038578964

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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory by Raman Selden Pdf

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 : Johannes Willem Bertens,Hans Bertens
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780415186643

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Literary Theory by Johannes Willem Bertens,Hans Bertens Pdf

This accessible guide provides the ideal first step in understanding literary theory.

Author : Mary Klages
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826442673

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Key Terms in Literary Theory by Mary Klages Pdf

Guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable.

Author : Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015003006070

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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism by Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman Pdf

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Author : Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421406398

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Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman Pdf

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to ?i?ek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780192853189

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Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136615566

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Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson Pdf

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.

Author : Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080206860X

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory by Irene Rima Makaryk Pdf

The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome guide to the field. Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory provides lucid, concise explanations of myriad approaches to literature that have arisen over the past forty years. Some 170 scholars from around the world have contributed their expertise to this volume. Their work is organized into three parts. In Part I, forty evaluative essays examine the historical and cultural context out of which new schools of and approaches to literature arose. The essays also discuss the uses and limitations of the various schools, and the key issues they address. Part II focuses on individual theorists. It provides a more detailed picture of the network of scholars not always easily pigeonholed into the categories of Part I. This second section analyses the individual achievements, as well as the influence, of specific scholars, and places them in a larger critical context. Part III deals with the vocabulary of literary theory. It identifies significant, complex terms, places them in context, and explains their origins and use. Accessibility is a key feature of the work. By avoiding jargon, providing mini-bibliographies, and cross-referencing throughout, Makaryk has provided an indispensable tool for literary theorists and historians and for all scholars and students of contemporary criticism and culture.

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814793619

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Literary Theories by Julian Wolfreys Pdf

The first reader and introductory guide to literary theory—includes close readings and a full glossary and bibliography Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gay studies and queer theory, and cultural studies, Literary Theories introduces the reader to the most challenging and engaging aspects of critical studies in the humanities today. Classic essays representing the different theoretical positions and offering striking examples of close readings of literature are preceded by new introductions which present the theory in question and discuss its main currents. With a full glossary and detailed bibliography, Literary Theories is the perfect introductory guide and reader in one volume. Included are essays by Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Homi K. Bhabha, Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Iain Chambers, Rey Chow, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry Eagleton, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Heath, Wolfgang Iser, Fredric Jameson, Hans Robert Jauss, Claire Kahane, Gail Ching Liang Low, Mary Lydon, Jean-François Lyotard, James M. Mellard, D.A. Miller, J. Hillis Miller, Louis Adrian Montrose, Michael Riffaterre, Avital Ronell, Nicholas Royle, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alan Sinfield, and Raymond Williams.

Author : Owen Holland
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848319059

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Introducing Literary Criticism by Owen Holland Pdf

From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches, this unique illustrated guide will help readers of all levels to get more out of their reading.