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Literary theory: a very short introduction / Jonathan Culler

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Unites States of America : Oxford University Press, c2011Description: xiv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780199691340
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 81 .C85 2011
Contents:
Chapter1. What is theory? -- Chapter2. What is literature and does it matter? -- Chapter3. Literature and cultural studies -- Chapter4. Language, meaning, and interpretation -- Chapter5. Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry -- Chapter6. Narrative -- Chapter7. Performative language -- Chapter8. Identity, identification, and the subject -- Chapter9. Ethics and aesthetics.
Summary: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics', it steers a clear and lucid path through an often impenetrable subject.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation Elementary Education GC PN 81 .C85 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000010709

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter1. What is theory? -- Chapter2. What is literature and does it matter? -- Chapter3. Literature and cultural studies -- Chapter4. Language, meaning, and interpretation -- Chapter5. Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry -- Chapter6. Narrative -- Chapter7. Performative language -- Chapter8. Identity, identification, and the subject -- Chapter9. Ethics and aesthetics.

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics', it steers a clear and lucid path through an often impenetrable subject.

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