Theory Of Literature

Author : Rene Wellek,Austin Warren
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1628972831

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Theory of Literature by Rene Wellek,Austin Warren Pdf

Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded "old New Critic." Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780192853189

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Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Author : Paul H. Fry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300183368

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Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry Pdf

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.

Author : David H. Richter
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : 1655 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312101066

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The Critical Tradition by David H. Richter Pdf

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 : Sōseki Natsume
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231518314

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Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings by Sōseki Natsume Pdf

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ideas and concepts of formalism, structuralism, reader-response theory, and postcolonialism, as well as cognitive approaches to literature that are only now gaining traction. Employing the cutting-edge approaches of contemporary psychology and sociology, Soseki created a model for studying the conscious experience of reading literature as well as a theory for how the process changes over time and across cultures. Along with Theory of Literature, this volume reproduces a later series of lectures and essays in which Soseki continued to develop his theories. By insisting that literary taste is socially and historically determined, Soseki was able to challenge the superiority of the Western canon, and by grounding his theory in scientific knowledge, he was able to claim a universal validity.

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Barry Laga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351357470

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Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism by Barry Laga Pdf

Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism is a completely fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning literary theory: using short passages of theory to make sense of literary and cultural texts. It focuses on the key concepts that help readers understand literature and cultural events in new and provocative ways. Covering a wide variety of iconic and contemporary theorists, the book offers a broad chronological and global overview, including thirty passages from theorists such as Viktor Shklovsky, Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Diana Fuss, Jean Baudrillard, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, and Eve Sedgwick. Built on the premise that scholars use theory pragmatically, Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism identifies problems, puzzles, and questions readers may encounter when they read a story, watch a film, or look at artwork. It explains, in detail, thirty concepts that help readers make sense of these works and invites students to apply the concepts to a range of writing and research projects. The textbook concludes by helping students read theory with an eye on finding productive passages and writing their own “theory chapter,” signaling a shift from student as critic to student as theorist. Used as a main text in introductory theory courses or as a supplement to any literature, film, theater, or art course, this book helps students read closely and think critically.

Author : Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Jacob Bronowski,Bruce Mazlish
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1962-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0061330019

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The Western Intellectual Tradition by Jacob Bronowski,Bruce Mazlish Pdf

Traces the development of thought through historical movements and periods from 1500 to 1830.

Author : Stephen Ahern
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319972688

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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice by Stephen Ahern Pdf

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern. While building readings of representative texts, contributors reflect on the value of affect theory to literary critical practice, asking: what explanatory power is affect theory affording me here as a critic? what can the insights of the theory help me do with a text? Contributors work to incorporate lines of theory not always read together, accounting for the affective intensities that circulate through texts and readers and tracing the operations of affectively charged social scripts. Drawing variously on queer, feminist and critical race theory and informed by ecocritical and new materialist sensibilities, essays in the volume share a critical practice founded in an ethics of relation and contribute to an emerging postcritical moment.

Author : Evan Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317526292

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Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory by Evan Gottlieb Pdf

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a variety of relevant contemporary examples to illuminate the field. Evan Gottlieb contextualizes the latest developments with regard to forms; discourses; subjectivities and embodiments; media, networks, and machines; and animals, affects, objects, and environments. Each chapter elucidates its concepts through in-depth discussions of major contemporary theorists, including Giorgio Agamben, Sara Ahmed, and Catherine Malabou, and uses engaging examples from a canonical novel, a contemporary text, and a new-media artifact to demonstrate theoretical applications. Additional text boxes regularly introduce emerging or overlooked theorists of interest, including Fred Moten and Sianne Ngai. An ideal guide for students of literary and critical theory, this book will give readers the background they need to continue their own explorations of this vibrant field of study.

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748668403

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Key Concepts in Literary Theory by Julian Wolfreys Pdf

Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial literary studies. The volume also provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory, supported by bibliographies and an expanded chronology of major thinkers. Accompanying the chronology are short biographies of major works by each critic or theorist.The third edition of this reliable reference work is both revised and expanded, including:* more than 100 additional terms and concepts defined.* newly defined terms include keywords from the social sciences, cultural studies and psychoanalysis and the addition of a broader selection of classical rhetorical terms.* an expanded chronology, with additional entries and a broader historical and cultural range.* expanded bibliographies including key texts by major critics.

Author : David Ayers
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124054201

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Literary Theory by David Ayers Pdf

Literary Theory: A Reintroduction introduces the current state of theory by placing it in its social, historical, and institutional contexts. Focuses on the period preceding the ‘theory movement’ of the 1970s and 1980s as well as the aftermath Asks questions about how and why literary theory evolved in the 20th century Discusses key figures such as F.R. Leavis, Raymond Williams, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Alain Badiou Examines the influence of a wide range of topics in the field, from the Cold War to the culture wars

Author : René Wellek,Austin Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000005017110

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Theory of Literature by René Wellek,Austin Warren Pdf

Author : Charles E. Bressler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015043785214

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Literary Criticism by Charles E. Bressler Pdf

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.