βThis concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and off-putting to the outsider.β βNew York Times Book Review<br /><br />Β <br /><br />βLiterary Theory has t
Literary theory : an introduction
β Scribed by Terry Eagleton
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 249
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
......Page 6
Preface to the Second Edition
......Page 8
Preface
......Page 10
Introduction: What is Literature?
......Page 12
1 The Rise of English
......Page 26
2 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics,
Reception Theory
......Page 58
3 Structuralism and Semiotics
......Page 90
4
Post-Structuralism......Page 121
5 Psychoanalysis
......Page 142
Conclusion: Political Criticism
......Page 180
Afterword
......Page 201
Notes
......Page 220
Bibliography
......Page 228
Index
......Page 235
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βThis concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and off-putting to the outsider.β βNew York Times Book Review Β βLiterary Theory has the kind of racy readab