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The Literary Theory Toolkit A Compendium of Concepts and Methods

by: Rapaport, Herman

The Literary Theory Toolkit A Compendium of Concepts and Methods

by: Rapaport, Herman

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9781405170475
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1405170476
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Copyright: 05/06/2011
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genres Features a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar texts Covers differing theories of the public sphere, ideology, power, and the social relations necessary for the understanding of approaches to literature

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis	p. 1
Basics of Literary Study	p. 2
Comprehension versus Interpretation	p. 2
Common Critical Practices	p. 4
Close Reading	p. 4
Contextual Analysis	p. 5
Application of a Critical Approach	p. 7
Social Criticism	p. 10
Literary Language	p. 14
Multiple Meanings	p. 15
Poetry and Plurisignation	p. 16
Hermeneutics	p. 19
Peshat and Derash	p. 19
Medieval Hermeneutics: The Fourfold Method	p. 20
Sympathetic Analogies	p. 22
The Rise of Modern Literary Interpretation	p. 25
Philosophical Hermeneutics	p. 28
The Hermeneutic Circle	p. 30
Major Twentieth-Century Schools of Critical Analysis	p. 34
Traditional and New Historicisms	p. 34
New Criticism	p. 36
Marxism	p. 37
Structuralism	p. 38
Phenomenological Literary Analysis	p. 39
Psychoanalytic Criticism	p. 41
Reader Response Criticism	p. 44
Post-Structuralism	p. 45
Sodo-Political Analyses	p. 46
Feminism	p. 46
Social Constructivism: Berger and Luckmann versus Michel Foucault	p. 48
Race Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Ethnic Studies	p. 54
Cultural, Global, and Post-Colonial Studies	p. 58
Tools for Reading Narrative	p. 65
Story and Plot: Fabula and Syuzhet	p. 68
Order	p. 70
Analepsis and Prolepsis	p. 71
Mimesis and Diegesis	p. 72
Free Indirect Discourse	p. 77
Interior Monologue	p. 79
Diachronic and Synchronic	p. 81
Intertextuality	p. 83
Dialogism	p. 85
Chronotope	p. 89
Character Zone	p. 90
Focalization	p. 92
Narrative Codes	p. 94
Tools for Reading Poetry	p. 98
Tropes	p. 98
Elision	p. 103
Resemblance	p. 107
Juxtaposition	p. 108
Analogy	p. 109
Allegory	p. 110
Emulation	p. 112
Imitation	p. 113
Objective Correlative	p. 115
Language Poetry	p. 117
The New Sentence	p. 122
Sound Poetry/Concrete Poetry	p. 123
Prosody	p. 130
Tools for Reading Performance	p. 134
Performance Studies	p. 134
Realist Theatre: Total Acting	p. 140
Konstantin Stanislavski	p. 142
Lee Strasberg (The Method), David Mamet (Practical Aesthetics), Mary Overlie (The Six Viewpoints Approach)	p. 144
Epic Theatre	p. 148
Theatre of Cruelty	p. 149
Actions	p. 151
Play	p. 154
Happenings	p. 156
Performance Art	p. 159
Guerrilla Theatre	p. 165
Tools for Reading Texts as Systems	p. 168
Aristotle and Form	p. 170
The Literary Work as Object of Rational Empiricism	p. 174
Saussurean Linguistics	p. 178
Lévi-Strauss and Structuralism	p. 182
Roman Jakobson's Communication Model	p. 187
Roland Barthes' Hierarchical Structures	p. 189
Functions	p. 192
Actions	p. 194
Narration	p. 195
Ideality and Phenomenology of the Literary Object: Husserl and Derrida	p. 197
Dissemination	p. 203
Structure as Rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari	p. 205
Permutation	p. 208
Undecidability: Derrida, Gödel, Lacan	p. 210
Simulating Systems: Jean Baudrillard	p. 216
Counterfeiting	p. 218
Production	p. 218
Simulation	p. 219
Multiplicity: Badiou	p. 221
Tools for Social Analysis	p. 225
The Public Sphere	p. 228
Habermas and the Frankfurt School	p. 228
The Public Sphere versus Hegemony: Laclau and Mouffe	p. 233
Ideology	p. 237
Political Ideology	p. 237
Top-down Ideology	p. 238
Ideology as Class Consciousness	p. 239
Ideology as False Consciousness	p. 241
Ideology as Semiotic Representation	p. 244
Ideology as Social Interpellation	p. 248
Theories of Power	p. 250
Might Makes Right versus the Good Shepherd	p. 250
Master/Slave Dialectics and the Recognition of Power: Hegel, Kojève, Sartre, Lacan	p. 253
Behaviorism: Stick and Carrot	p. 259
Capillary Power	p. 261
The Social Relation	p. 263
Primitive Social Relations	p. 264
Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics	p. 265
From Divine Right to Social Contract	p. 270
Marx on The Social Relation	p. 275
Alterity: The Relation of Non-relation	p. 277
Index	p. 288
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The Literary Theory Toolkit A Compendium of Concepts and Methods

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