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020 _a9780199691340
040 _cNULRC
050 _aPN 81 .C85 2011
100 _aCuller, Jonathan.
_eauthor
245 0 _aLiterary theory:
_ba very short introduction /
_cJonathan Culler
260 _aUnites States of America :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc2011
300 _axiv, 165 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c18 cm.
365 _bUSD7.45
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aChapter1. 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.
520 _aLiterary 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.
650 _aCRITICISM
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_cBK
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