Literary theory [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Castle

• Autore: Castle Gregory
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 801/.950904
• Soggetto topico: Criticism - History - 20th century; English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Literary theory
• ISBN: 1405171588; 9781405171588
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795957503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell guides to literature.