Synopses & Reviews
The fourth edition of the bestselling Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice showcases various schools of 20th century criticism in historical and philosophical contexts.
New features include:
· A new chapter on queer theory.
· Every chapter has been revised with new introductions with appropriate new critical vocabulary, critical terms, further readings sections, and web sites.
· New student essays
· Structuralism and Deconstruction have been combined into one section to make the material clearer and more streamlined.
· The addition of Plotinus, Giovanni Boccaccio, Joseph Addison, Percy Pysshe Shelley, and Mikhail Bakhtin.
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Synopsis
Presents the eleven basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this text explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism, provides a clear methodology for writing essays according to each school's beliefs and tenets, and features accessible student-generated sample essays.
Table of Contents
Foreword
To the Reader
Chapter One Chapter Two A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism Chapter Three Russian Formalism and New Criticism Chapter Four Reader-Oriented Criticism Chapter Five Modernity/Postmodernism Structuralism/Poststructuralism: Deconstruction
Chapter Six Psychoanalytic Criticism
Chapter Seven Feminism
Chapter Eight Marxism
Chapter Nine Cultural Poetics or New Historicism
Chapter Ten Cultural Studies: Postcolonialism, African-American Criticism, and Queer Theory
Literary Selections
John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816) (Short poem)
Nathaniel Hawthorne “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (Short story)
Nathaniel Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” (Short story)
Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” (Short poem)
Edgar Allan Poe “Ligeia” (Short poem)
Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1920) (Short poem)
Rudyard Kipling “At the End of the Passage”
Index