Critical Theory : A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780199797776 | 0199797773
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/24/2012
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A wide-ranging and refreshingly up-to-date anthology of primary readings, Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies, edited by Robert Dale Parker, presents a provocative mix of contemporary and classic essays in critical theory. From the foundational ideas of Marx and Freud to key writings by Fanon and Foucault, the essays in this collection represent the most influential ideas in modern critical thought and in the contemporary interpretation of literature and culture. Ideal as a stand-alone reader or as a companion to a criti... MORE
Introduction
New Criticism
Cleanth Brooks, "The Language of Paradox"
Cleanth Brooks, "The Formalist Critics"
W. K. Wimsatt, "The Concrete Universal"
See also selections by Strier and Wolfson
Structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
Victor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique"
V. Propp, Morphology of the Folktale
Roman Jakobson, "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles"
Roman Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics"
Claude Lévi-Straus, "The Str... MORE
Robert Dale Parker is James M. Benson Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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