Practising Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Raman Selden

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Anglo-American Criticism
1 Moral Criticism (F. R. Leavis)
2 New Criticism
3 'Rhetoric of Fiction'
Chapter 2 Russian Formalism
4 'Baring the Device'
5 'Making Strange' (Defamiliarisation)
Chapter 3 Structuralism
6 Naturalisation
7 Binary Oppositions
8 Narrative Theory
9 Metaphor and Metonymy
Chapter 4 Poststructuralism
10 The Semiotics of the Sign and the Subject
11 Psychoanalytic Criticism
12 Deconstruction
13 New Historicism
Chapter 5 Reader-response Criticism
14 Phenomenology (Geneva School) and Deconstruction
15 Norman Holland and Roland Barthes
16 Jonathan Culler and Roland Barthes
17 Wolfgang Iser
18 Hans Robert Jauss
Chapter 6 Marxist and Feminist Criticism
19 Marxist and Feminist Criticism (Class and Gender)
20 Feminist Criticism (Reading as a Woman)
21 Feminist Criticism (Writing as a Woman)
22 Marxist Criticism (Literature and Ideology)
23 Marxism and Modernism (Lukács and Brecht)
24 Marxist Criticism (Class Struggle and Bakhtin)
Exercises
References
Index