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Literary Criticism : An Introduction to Theory and Practice

ISBN: 9780130333971 | 0130333972
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003

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SummaryTable of Contents
A core text for introductory courses in Literary Criticism or for first-year-graduate courses in Literary Theory; a supplementary text for introductory courses in Literature. This text is designed to make literary theory and criticism accessible to those with no previous knowledge of the subject. It presents the eleven basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions, it explicitly presents the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism, provid... MORE
Forewordix
To the Readerxii
Defining Criticism, Theory, and Literature
1(15)
Eavesdropping on a Literature Classroom
... MORE1(2)
Can a Text Have More Than One Interpretation?
3(1)
How to Become a Literary Critic
3(1)
What Is Literary Criticism?
4(2)
What Is Literary Theory?
6(1)
Making Meaning from Text
7(1)
The Reading Process and Literary Theory
8(2)
What Is Literature?
10(2)
Literary Theory and the Definition of Literature
12(1)
The Function of Literature and Literary Theory
13(1)
Beginning the Formal Study of Literary Theory
14(1)
Further Reading
15(1)
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism
16(21)
Introduction
16(1)
Plato (ca. 427-347 B.C.)
16(2)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
18(3)
Horace (65-8 B.C.)
21(1)
Longinus (First Century A.D.)
22(1)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
23(1)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
24(1)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
24(1)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
25(1)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
26(3)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893)
29(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
30(2)
Henry James (1843-1916)
32(2)
Modern Literary Criticism
34(1)
Further Reading
35(2)
New Criticism
37(18)
Introduction
37(2)
Historical Development
39(3)
Assumptions
42(3)
Methodology
45(3)
Questions for Analysis
48(1)
Sample Essay
48(1)
Further Reading
49(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
49(1)
Student Essay: Dale Schuurman, Keats's ``To Autumn'': Verses of Praise for a Malicious Season?
50(5)
Reader-Response Criticism
55(20)
Introduction
55(2)
Historical Development
57(4)
Assumptions
61(2)
Methodology
63(6)
Questions for Analysis
69(1)
Sample Essay
70(1)
Further Reading
70(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
71(1)
Student Essay: Jennifer Douglas, ``Ethan Brand's'' Challenge to Me
72(3)
Structuralism
75(19)
Introduction
75(1)
Historical Development
76(6)
Assumptions
82(2)
Methodologies
84(5)
Questions for Analysis
89(1)
Sample Essay
89(1)
Further Reading
90(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
90(1)
Student Essay: Conie Krause, Will the Real Walter Mitty Please Wake Up: A Structuralist's View of ``The Secret Life of Walter Mitty''
91(3)
Deconstruction
94(25)
Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Two Views of the World
94(2)
Modernity
96(2)
Poststructuralism or Postmodernism
98(2)
Historical Development
100(4)
Assumptions
104(3)
Methodology
107(6)
American Deconstructors
113(1)
Questions for Analysis
114(1)
Sample Essay
114(1)
Further Reading
115(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
115(1)
Student Essay: Jennifer Douglas, Deconstructing a ``Real'' House
116(3)
Psychoanalytic Criticism
119(23)
Introduction
119(2)
Historical Development
121(11)
Assumptions
132(1)
Methodologies
133(2)
Questions for Analysis
135(1)
Sample Essay
136(1)
Further Reading
136(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
137(1)
Student Essay: David Johnson, A Psychoanalytic Approach to Poe's ``The City in the Sea''
137(5)
Feminism
142(19)
Introduction
142(2)
Historical Development
144(9)
Assumptions
153(1)
Methodology
154(2)
Questions for Analysis
156(1)
Sample Essay
156(1)
Further Reading
157(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
157(1)
Student Essay: Lori Huth, Throwing Off the Yoke: ``Rip Van Winkle'' and Women
158(3)
Marxism
161(18)
Introduction
161(1)
Historical Development
162(8)
Assumptions
170(2)
Methodology
172(1)
Questions for Analysis
173(1)
Sample Essay
174(1)
Further Reading
174(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
175(1)
Student Essay: Juanita Wolfe, Baking Bread for the Bourgeoisie
175(4)
Cultural Poetics or New Historicism
179(18)
Introduction
179(2)
Historical Development
181(4)
Assumptions
185(3)
Methodology
188(2)
Questions for Textual Analysis
190(1)
Questions for Analysis
191(1)
Sample Essay
191(1)
Further Reading
191(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
192(1)
Student Essay: Krista Adlhock, Hawthorne's Understanding of History in ``The Maypole of Merry Mount''
193(4)
Cultural Studies
197(17)
Introduction
197(2)
Postcolonialism: ``The Empire Writes Back''
199(1)
Historical Development of Postcolonialism
200(2)
Assumptions of Postcolonialist Theory
202(2)
Methodology
204(1)
Questions for Analysis
205(1)
Postcolonialism and African American Criticism
205(3)
Gender Studies: New Directions in Feminism
208(1)
Sample Essay
209(1)
Further Reading
209(1)
Web Sites for Exploration
210(1)
Student Essay: Wendy Rader, ``The Gentlemen of the Jungle'': Or Are They Beasts?
211(3)
Literary Selections214(46)
``To Autumn''
214(1)
John Keats
``Ethan Brand''
215(13)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
``The Secret Life of Walter Mitty''
228(4)
James Thurber
``The House on Mango Street''
232(1)
Sandra Cisneros
``The City in the Sea''
233(2)
Edgar Allan Poe
``Rip Van Winkle''
235(13)
Washington Irving
``Marked with D.''
248(1)
Tony Harrison
``The Maypole of Merry Mount''
248(8)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
``The Gentlemen of the Jungle''
256(4)
Jomo Kenyatta
Glossary260(29)
References289(23)
Credits312(2)
Index314

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