Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide
ISBN: 9780415974103 | 0415974100
Edition: 2ndFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 8/14/2006
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This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular cul... MORE
| Psychoanalytic Criticism The Unconscious and the Defenses | |
| Dreams | |
| Dream Symbols | |
| Death and Sexuality | |
| Psychoanalysis and Literature | |
| A Psychoanalytic Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| Marxist Criticism Marxist Premises | |
| Ideology and Human Behavior | |
| Marxism and Literature | |
| A Marxist Reading of The Great Gatsby | ... MORE|
| Feminist Criticism Feminist Premises | |
| Multicultural Feminism | |
| Feminism and Literature | |
| A Feminist Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| New Criticism "The Text Itself": Literary Language and Organic Unity | |
| A Close Reading of Lucille Clifton's "There Is a Girl Inside" | |
| Objective Criticism and the "Single Best Reading" | |
| A New Critical Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| Reader-Response Criticism Transactional, Subjective, Psychological, and Social Theories | |
| Affective Stylistics | |
| Defining Readers | |
| A Reader-Response Analysis of The Great Gatsby | |
| Structuralist Criticism Structural Linguistics and Anthropology | |
| Semiotic Theory | |
| Structuralist Approaches to Literature | |
| A Structuralist Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| Deconstructive Criticism Deconstructing Language and Human Identity | |
| Deconstructing Literature | |
| Deconstructing Frost's "Mending Wall" | |
| A Deconstructive Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| New Historical and Cultural Criticism New Historicism: History, Subjectivity, and Discourse | |
| Cultural Criticism: Politics, Power, and Popular Culture | |
| New Historicism | |
| Cultural Criticism, and Literature | |
| A New Historical Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Criticism The Marginalization of Lesbians and Gay Men | |
| Lesbian Criticism/Gay Criticism/Queer Criticism | |
| Shared Features of Lesbian Gay, and Queer Criticism | |
| A Queer Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| Postcolonial and African American Criticism Postcolonial Identity, Debates, and Approaches to Literature | |
| African American Literary History, Tradition, and Current Trends | |
| Shared Features of Postcolonial and African American Criticism | |
| A Postcolonial Reading of The Great Gatsby | |
| Courses for Adoption Critical Theory | |
| Literary Criticism/Theory, Literature and Philosophy | |
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