Critical theory and practice : a coursebook / / Keith Green and Jill LeBihan

• Autore: Green Keith <1954->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Disciplina: 801/.95
• Soggetto topico: Criticism; Critical theory; Language and languages
• Altri autori: LeBihanJill <1966->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Language, linguistics and literature; 1 Basic relations; 2 Texts, grammars, discourses; 3 Language, literature, education; 4 What is stylistics?; 5 The trouble with stylistics; 6 Pragmatics; 7 Speech acts; 8 Gender; 9 Cognition, linguistic relativity, literature; Glossary; Select bibliography; 2 Structures of literature; 1 Of signification; 2 Systems; 3 The macro-level: grammars; 4 The micro-level: syntax of texts; 5 Structural analysis of narratives; 6 Structures and intention ; 7 Semiotics8 The failures of semiotics; Glossary; Select bibliography; 3 Literature and history; 1 What is history?; 2 Literary history; 3 Literary classifications; 4 New Historicism; 5 Foucault and history; 6 Historicism, anthropology, thick description; 7 The ideologies of texts; Glossary; Select bibliography; 4 Subjectivity, psychoanalysis and criticism; 1 Defining subjectivity; 2 Literature and psychoanalysis; 3 Freudian psychoanalysis; 4 Sexual identity and psychoanalysis; 5 Lacanian psychoanalysis; 6 Lacan and language; Select bibliography; 5 Reading, writing and reception ; 1 The role of the reader2 Reading and identity; 3 From micro- to macro-reading; 4 Open and closed texts; 5 Deaths of authors, births of readers; 6 Anti-formalisms, structures and Gestalt; 7 Deconstructing the text; Glossary; Select bibliography; 6 Feminism, literature and criticism; 1 Defining feminism; 2 The second wave; 3 Écriture féminine; 4 Writing lesbian; 5 'Post-feminism'; 6 'Men's studies'; Glossary; Select bibliography; 7 Cultural identity, literature, criticism; 1 Challenging the canon; 2 Writing back; 3 Writing and cultural identity; 4 Post-colonial literary theory ; 5 Freedom, censorship, writing and race6 Double colonisation: women and cultural identity; Glossary; Select bibliography; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <EM>Critical Teory and Practice</EM> answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory.<BR> The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding commentary, examples from literary and critical works, and a variety of exercises to provoke and engage you. Each chapter includes a glossary and annotated selection of suggested further reading. There is also a full bibliography.<BR> The authors cover the key issues and debates of liter
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical theory and practice
• ISBN: 1-134-82281-2; 1-134-82282-0; 1-283-88310-4; 1-280-56369-9; 9786610563692; 0-203-13010-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813969003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II