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UNINA9910795833903321 |
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Castle Gregory |
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Titolo |
The Literary Theory Handbook |
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Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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9781118332474 |
9780470671955 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (440 pages) |
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Collana |
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Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks Ser. |
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Soggetti |
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Criticism -- History -- Handbooks, manuals, etc |
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Handbooks, manuals, etc |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- The Literary Theory Handbook -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Alphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories -- Introduction -- The Nature of Literary Theory -- What is Literature? -- The Practice of Theory -- How to Use the Handbook -- 1 The Rise of Literary Theory -- Early Developments in Literary Theory -- Modernism and Formalism, 1890s-1940s -- Cultural and Critical Theory, 1930s-1960s -- The Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s-1970s -- Culture, Gender, and History, 1980s-1990s -- Postmodernism and Post-Marxism, 1980s-2000s -- Posthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Siècle -- Conclusion -- 2 The Scope of Literary Theory -- 1 Form/Structure/Narrative/Genre -- Formalism and Structuralism -- New Criticism -- Chicago School Neo-Aristotelian Theory -- Narrative Theory/Narratology -- Theory of the Novel -- 2 Ideology/Philosophy/History/Aesthetics -- Marxist Theory -- Critical Theory -- Post-Marxist Theory -- New Historicism/Cultural Poetics -- Postmodernism -- 3 Language/Systems/Texts/Readers -- Phenomenology and Hermeneutics -- Reader-Response Theory -- Deconstruction -- Poststructuralism -- 4 Mind/Body/Gender/Identity -- Psychoanalysis -- Feminist Theory -- Gender Studies -- Gay and |
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Lesbian Studies -- Trauma Studies -- 5 Culture/Ethnicities/Nations/Locations -- Cultural Studies -- African American Studies -- Ethnic and Indigenous Studies -- Chicano/a Studies -- Native and Indigenous Studies -- Asian American Studies -- Postcolonial Studies -- Transnationalism -- 6 People/Places/Bodies/Things -- Posthumanism -- Evolutionary Literary Theory -- Object-Oriented Ontologies -- Disability Studies -- Ecocriticism -- 3 Key Figures in Literary Theory -- Theodor Adorno (1903-69) -- Giorgio Agamben (1942-) -- Louis Althusser (1918-90) -- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) -- Roland Barthes (1915-80) -- Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). |
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) -- Homi Bhabha (1949-) -- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) -- Lawrence Buell (1939-) -- Judith Butler (1956-) -- Hélène Cixous (1937-) -- Lennard Davis (1949-) -- Teresa de Lauretis (1939-) -- Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Félix Guattari (1930-92) -- Paul de Man (1919-83) -- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) -- Terry Eagleton (1943-) -- Frantz Fanon (1925-61) -- Stanley Fish (1938-) -- Michel Foucault (1926-84) -- Henry Louis Gates (1950-) -- Sandra Gilbert (1936-) and Susan Gubar (1944-) -- Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) -- Elizabeth Grosz (1952-) -- Stuart Hall (1932-) -- Donna Haraway (1944-) -- N. Katherine Hayles (1943-) -- bell hooks (1952-) -- Luce Irigaray (1930-) -- Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007) -- Fredric Jameson (1934-) -- Julia Kristeva (1941-) -- Jacques Lacan (1901-81) -- Bruno Latour (1947-) -- Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98) -- J. Hillis Miller (1928-) -- Antonio Negri (1933-) -- Jacques Rancière (1940-) -- Edward Said (1935-2003) -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) -- Elaine Showalter (1941-) -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-) -- Raymond Williams (1921-88) -- Cary Wolfe (1959-) -- Slavoj Žižek (1949-) -- 4 Reading with Literary Theory -- William Shakespeare, The Tempest -- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre -- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea -- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness -- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart -- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse -- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Samuel Beckett, Endgame -- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children -- Recommendations for Further Reading -- Glossary -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories. A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theories Far reaching in its inclusion of a detailed history of theory and in-depth discussions of major theories and movements Four distinct perspectives on theory-historical, thematic, biographical, practical-are carefully intertwined, so that key concepts, terms and ideas are developed in different contexts and cross-referenced, in the text and in the index. Includes alphabetically-arranged biographies designed for quick reference, and sample readings to illustrate the practical application of theory. |
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