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Literary criticism : an introduction to theory and practice / Charles E. Bressler

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Place of publication not identifed] : Pearson Education, Incorporated, c2011Edition: Fifth EditionDescription: xvi, 336 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780205212149
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 81 .B74 2011
Contents:
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 .
Summary: 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
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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 .

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

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