Literary Theory: The Basics

✍ Scribed by Hans Bertens;

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
half Title
Series Page
Half Title
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Reading for meaning: Practical criticism and New Criticism
2. Reading for form and function: Formalism and early structuralism, 1914–1960
3. Reading for form: French structuralism, 1950–1975
4. Political reading: Class, gender, and race in the 1970s and 1980s
5. The poststructuralist revolution
6. Literature and culture: Cultural studies, the new historicism, cultural materialism
7. Postcolonial criticism and theory
8. Sexuality, literature, culture, and queer studies
9. Decentring the human: Posthumanism, ecocriticism, new materialism, animal studies
10. ‘Theory’, post-Theory, new challenges
Bibliography
Index