How to Interpret Literature : Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780199757503 | 019975750X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/18/2011
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Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor,How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies,Second Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. The only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, it provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies since the 1930s, including those often omitted from other texts. It is also the only up-to-date survey of l... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| New Criticism | p. 11 |
| How to Interpret: Key Concepts for New Critical Interpretation | p. 18 |
| Historicizing the New Criticism: Rethinking Literary Unity | p. 23 |
| The Intentional Fallacy and the Affective Fallacy | p. 30 |
| How to Interpret: A New Critical Example | p. 38 |
| Further Reading | ... MORE |
| Structuralism | p. 44 |
| Key Concepts in Structuralism | p. 45 |
| How to Interpret: Structuralism in Cultural and Literary Studies | p. 52 |
| The Death of the Author | p. 57 |
| How to Interpret: The Detective Novel | p. 58 |
| Structuralism, Formalism, and Literary History | p. 63 |
| The Structuralist Study of Narrative: Narratology | p. 66 |
| Narrative Syntax, Metaphor, and Metonymy | p. 78 |
| Further Reading | p. 84 |
| Deconstruction | p. 86 |
| Key Concepts in Deconstruction | p. 87 |
| How to Interpret: A Deconstructionist Example | p. 93 |
| Writing, Speech, and Differance | p. 95 |
| Deconstruction beyond Derrida | p. 99 |
| Deconstruction, Essentialism, and Identity | p. 102 |
| How to Interpret: More Deconstructive Examples | p. 108 |
| Further Reading | p. 110 |
| Psychoanalysis | p. 112 |
| The Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Mind | p. 115 |
| Sigmund Freud | p. 118 |
| How to Interpret: Models of Psychoanalytic Interpretation | p. 123 |
| From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Interpretation of Literature | p. 128 |
| How to Interpret: Psychoanalytic Examples | p. 131 |
| Jacques Lacan | p. 138 |
| Further Reading | p. 147 |
| Feminism | p. 148 |
| Early Feminist Criticism | p. 151 |
| Sex and Gender | p. 157 |
| Feminisms | p. 159 |
| How to Interpret: Feminist Examples | p. 163 |
| Feminism and Visual Pleasure | p. 166 |
| Further Reading | p. 176 |
| Queer Studies | p. 179 |
| Key Concepts in Queer Studies | p. 180 |
| How to Interpret: A Queer Studies Example | p. 186 |
| Queer Studies and History | p. 189 |
| Outing: Writers, Characters, and the Literary Closet | p. 194 |
| Homosociality and Heterosexual Panic | p. 199 |
| How to Interpret: Another Queer Studies Example | p. 205 |
| Further Reading | p. 208 |
| Marxism | p. 211 |
| Key Concepts in Marxism | p. 212 |
| Contemporary Marxism, Ideology, and Agency | p. 221 |
| How to Interpret: Marxist Examples | p. 235 |
| Further Reading | p. 242 |
| Historicism and Cultural Studies | p. 244 |
| New Historicism | p. 244 |
| How to Interpret: Historicist Examples | p. 250 |
| Michel Foucault | p. 255 |
| Cultural Studies | p. 260 |
| How to Interpret: A Cultural Studies Example | p. 262 |
| Cultural Studies, Historicism, and Literature | p. 265 |
| Further Reading | p. 267 |
| Postcolonial and Race Studies | p. 270 |
| Postcolonialism | p. 271 |
| From Orientalism to Deconstruction: Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | p. 278 |
| How to Interpret: A Postcolonial Studies Example | p. 293 |
| Race Studies: Postcolonial Theory and the Construction of Race | p. 295 |
| How to Interpret: Postcolonial and Race Studies Examples | p. 307 |
| Further Reading | p. 311 |
| Reader Response | p. 314 |
| Ideal, Implied, and Actual Readers | p. 317 |
| Structuralist Models of Reading and Communication | p. 319 |
| Aesthetic Judgment, Interpretive Communities, and Resisting Readers | p. 324 |
| Reception Theory and Reception History | p. 328 |
| Readers and the New Technologies | p. 330 |
| Further Reading | p. 332 |
| Afterword | p. 335 |
| Works Cited | p. 337 |
| Photographic Credits | p. 341 |
| Index | p. 343 |
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Robert Dale Parker is James M. Benson Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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