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How to Interpret Literature : Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780195334708 | 0195334701
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/4/2008
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Designed for upper level courses in theory and criticism often required of English majors, this survey of key critical approaches to literature offers a fresh and accessible approach to the major movements in criticism. How to Interpret Literature updates the standard approaches to criticism, such as Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and Feminism, and introduces cutting-edge areas of study for both student and instructor, such as Queer Studies, PostcolonialStudies, and Reader Response Theory. The informal tone engages readers and he... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| New Criticism | |
| How to Interpret: Key Concepts from New Criticism | |
| Historicizing the New Criticism: Rethinking Literary Unity | |
| The Intentional Fallacy and the Affective Fallacy | |
| How to Interpret: A New Critical Example | |
| Structuralism | |
| Structuralism in Cultural and Literary Studies | |
| The S... MORE | |
| Narrative Syntax, Metaphor and Metonymy | |
| Deconstruction | |
| Writing, Speech, and Differance | |
| Deconstruction beyond Derrida | |
| Deconstruction, Essentialism, and Identity | |
| How to Interpret: More Deconstructive Examples | |
| Psychoanalysis | |
| The Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Mind | |
| How to Interpret: Models of Psychoanalytic Interpretation | |
| From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Interpretation of Literature | |
| Feminism | |
| Early Feminist Criticism | |
| Sex and Gender | |
| Feminisms | |
| How to Interpret: Feminist Examples | |
| Feminism and Visual Pleasure | |
| Queer Studies | |
| How to Interpret: A Queer Studies Example | |
| Queer Studies and History | |
| Outing: Writers, Characters, and the Literary Closet | |
| Homosociality and Heterosexual PanicHow to Interpret: Another Queer Studies Example | |
| Marxism | |
| Contemporary Marxism, Ideology, and Agency | |
| How to Interpret: Marxist Examples | |
| Historicism and Cultural Studies | |
| New Historicism | |
| Michel FoucaultCultural Studies | |
| How to Interpret: Cultural Studies, Historicism, and Literature | |
| Postcolonial and Race Studies | |
| Postcolonialism | |
| From Orientalism to Deconstruction | |
| Race Studies: Postcolonial Theory and the Construction of Race | |
| How to Interpret: Postcolonial and Race Studies Examples | |
| Reader Response | |
| Afterword | |
| Works Cited | |
| Further Reading | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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