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Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019285318X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Theory written by Terry Eagleton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne H. Stevens
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770485619
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction written by Anne H. Stevens and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780312101060
Total Pages : 1655 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Critical Tradition written by David H. Richter and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473611938
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction written by Sara Upstone and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Klages
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826490735
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Mary Klages and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide introduces theory in a clear, accessible way, focusing on the major approaches and theorists.
Author : Steven J. Venturino, PhD
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1615643273
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism written by Steven J. Venturino, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1554812372
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction written by Anne H. Stevens and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144674
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Theory and Criticism written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles E. Bressler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Charles E. Bressler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Klages
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147259276X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Theory: The Complete Guide written by Mary Klages and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
