Literary Theory The Basics

✍ Scribed by Hans Bertens

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: The Basics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics including:reception theory and reader response theorythe new criticism of postmodernismthe 'after theory' debatepost-humanism, biopolitics and animal studiesaestheticsLiterary Theory: The Basics helps r. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover; Literary Theory; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Reading for meaning: practical criticism and New Criticism; 2 Reading for form I: formalism and early structuralism, 1914-60; 3 Reading for form II: French structuralism, 1950-75; 4 Political reading: class, gender, and race in the 1970s and 1980s; 5 The poststructuralist revolution: Derrida and deconstruction; 6 Poststructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, French feminism, and postmodernism; 7 Literature and culture: cultural studies, the new historicism, and cultural materialism 8 Postcolonial criticism and theory9 Sexuality, literature, and culture; 10 Posthumanism, ecocriticism, and animal studies; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Abstract: This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics including:reception theory and reader response theorythe new criticism of postmodernismthe 'after theory' debatepost-humanism, biopolitics and animal studiesaestheticsLiterary Theory: The Basics helps r

✦ Subjects

Литературоведение;Теория литературы;Основы теории литературы;