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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798206603321

Autore

Selden Raman

Titolo

Practising theory and reading literature : an introduction / / Raman Selden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-53843-1

1-134-96273-8

1-134-96266-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Disciplina

801.95

Soggetti

Criticism

Literature, Modern - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Anglo-American Criticism; 1 Moral Criticism (F. R. Leavis); 2 New Criticism; 3 'Rhetoric of Fiction'; Chapter 2 Russian Formalism; 4 'Baring the Device'; 5 'Making Strange' (Defamiliarisation); Chapter 3 Structuralism; 6 Naturalisation; 7 Binary Oppositions; 8 Narrative Theory; 9 Metaphor and Metonymy; Chapter 4 Poststructuralism; 10 The Semiotics of the Sign and the Subject; 11 Psychoanalytic Criticism; 12 Deconstruction; 13 New Historicism; Chapter 5 Reader-response Criticism

14 Phenomenology (Geneva School) and Deconstruction15 Norman Holland and Roland Barthes; 16 Jonathan Culler and Roland Barthes; 17 Wolfgang Iser; 18 Hans Robert Jauss; Chapter 6 Marxist and Feminist Criticism; 19 Marxist and Feminist Criticism (Class and Gender); 20 Feminist Criticism (Reading as a Woman); 21 Feminist Criticism (Writing as a Woman); 22 Marxist Criticism (Literature and Ideology); 23 Marxism and Modernism (Lukács and Brecht); 24 Marxist Criticism (Class Struggle and Bakhtin); Exercises; References; Index