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Texts and Contexts : Writing about Literature with Critical Theory
ISBN: 9780321209429 | 0321209427
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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Deeply rooted in the views, responses, and history of contemporary critical theories,Texts and Contexts, Fourth Edition provides students with the knowledge and tools to write about literature effectively. The author presents a user-friendly introduction to contemporary critical theoriesufrom new criticism to cultural studies-as part of the practice of writing about literature.Texts and Contexts innovatively incorporates a step-by-step approach in each chapter guiding readers through the application of a particular theory and giving them clear ... MORE
| Each chapter concludes with "Works Cited" and "Recommended Further Reading" sections | |
| Preface | |
| An Introduction, Theoretically | |
| Textual Tours | |
| Checking Some Baggage | |
| Anything to Declare | |
| Critical Visions: A Selective Tour | |
| New Criticism | |
| From Here at The New Yorker, Brendan Gill | |
| Reader-Response Criticism | ... MORE|
| Deconstructive Criticism | |
| Historical, Postcolonial, and Cultural Studies | |
| Psychological Criticism | |
| Feminist Criticism | |
| Other Approaches | |
| Unifying the Work: New Criticism | |
| The Purpose of New Criticism | |
| Basic Principles Reflected | |
| Ars Poetica, Archibald MacLeish | |
| Radicals in Tweed Jackets | |
| How to Do New Criticism | |
| The Writing Process: A Sample Essay | |
| The Mother, Gwendolyn Brooks | |
| Preparing to Write | |
| Shaping | |
| Drafting | |
| Practicing New Criticism | |
| Forgiving my Father, Lucille Clifton | |
| Questions | |
| My Father's Martial Art, Stephen Shu-ning Liu | |
| Questions | |
| Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism | |
| The Purpose of Reader-Response Criticism | |
| New Criticism as the Old Criticism | |
| The Reader Emerges | |
| Hypertextual Readers | |
| How to Do Reader-Response Criticism | |
| Preparing to Respond | |
| Love Poem #1, Sandra Cisneros | |
| Making Sense | |
| Subjective Response | |
| Receptive Response | |
| The Writing Process: A Sample Essay | |
| Preparing to Respond | |
| A Very Short Story, Ernest Hemmingway | |
| Preparing to Write | |
| Shaping | |
| Drafting | |
| Practicing Reader-Response Criticism | |
| Since There's No Help, Michael Drayton | |
| Questions | |
| Killing the Be | |
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