TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bressler, Charles E.
TI  - Literary criticism: an introduction to theory and practice 
SN  - 9780205212149
AV  - PN 81 .B74 2011 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - [Place of publication not identifed]
PB  - Pearson Education, Incorporated
KW  - CRITICISM
N1  - Includes index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -