Bressler, Charles E. <br/><br/>
Literary criticism :  an introduction to theory and practice / 
Charles E. Bressler 
 - Fifth Edition 
 - [Place of publication not identifed] :  Pearson Education, Incorporated,  c2011 
 - xvi, 336 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter1. Defining criticism, theory, and literature -- Chapter2. A historical survey of literary criticism -- Chapter3. Russian formalism and new criticism -- Chapter4. Reader-oriented criticism -- Chapter5.  Modernity/  Postmodernism structuralism/Poststructuralism: deconstruction -- Chapter6. Psychoanalytic criticism -- Chapter7. Feminism -- Chapter8.  Marxism -- Chapter9.  Cultural poetics or new historicism -- Chapter10. Postcolonialism -- Chapter11.  African-American criticism -- Chapter12. Queer theory: Gay and Lesbian Criticism Chapter13. Ecocriticism . 
<br/><br/> Presents the thirteen 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 and provides a clear methodology for writing essays according to each school's beliefs and tenets 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780205212149 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CRITICISM
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 81 .B74 2011