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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807991003321

Autore

Castle Gregory

Titolo

Literary theory / / Gregory Castle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2006

ISBN

1405171588

9781405171588

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Blackwell guides to literature

Classificazione

901

Disciplina

801/.950904

Soggetti

Criticism - History - 20th century

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The rise of literary theory. Timeline. The scope of literary theory. Critical theory -- Cultural studies -- Deconstruction -- Ethnic studies -- Feminist theory -- Gender and sexuality -- Marxist theory -- Narrative theory -- New criticism -- New historicism -- Postcolonial studies -- Postmodernism -- Poststructuralism -- Psychoanalysis -- Reader-response theory -- Structuralism and formalism. Key figures in literary theory. Theodor Adorno -- Louis Althusser -- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bahktin -- Roland Barthes -- Jean Baudrillard -- Walter Benjamin -- Homi Bhabha -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Judith Butler -- Hazel Carby -- Helen Cixous -- Teresa de Lauretis -- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari -- Paul de Man -- Jacques Derrida -- Terry Eagleton -- Frantz Fanon -- Stanley Fish -- Michel Foucault -- Henry Louis Gates -- Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- Stephen Greenblatt -- Stuart Hall -- Donna Haraway -- bell hooks -- Linda Hutcheon -- Luce Irigaray -- Wolfgang Iser -- Fredric Jameson -- Julia Kristeva -- Jacques Lacan -- Jean-Francois Lyotard -- J. Hillis Miller -- Edward Said -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Elain Showalter -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Raymond Williams -- Slavoj Zizek. Reading with literary theory. William Shakespeare, The Tempest -- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" -- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre -- Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener: a story of Wall Street -- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness -- James Joyce, Ulysses -- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse -- Zora Neale



Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God -- William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" -- Samuel Beckett, Endgame -- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children -- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus. Conclusion: Reading literary theory.

Sommario/riassunto

This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis.