A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory - Brossura

Brooker, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0134425677 ISBN 13: 9780134425672

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1996

Riassunto

This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example essays are included for each author/text presented.

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Contenuti:

1.  William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". (Critics): J. Lacan, T.S. Eliot, J. Rose, E. Showalter, C. Belsey   2.  William Wordworths "Intimations of Immortality Ode". (Critics): C. Brooks, G. Hartmann, M. Levinson  3.  George Eliot's "Middlemarch". (Critics): R. Williams, F. R. Leavis, T. Eagleton, C. MacCabe, J. Hillis Miller  4.  Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". (Critics): V. Woolf, Marxist-Feminist Collective, S. Gilbert and S. Gubar, G. Spivak  5.  Oscar Wilde. (Critics): Eve Sedgwick, J. Dollimore, T. Eagleton, J. Bristow  6.  Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". (Critics): F. R. Leavis, T. Todorov, C. Achebe, E. Said  7.  James Joyce's "Ulysses". (Critics): W. Iser, F. Jameson, J. Derrida, R. Williams  8.  Berthold Brecht. (Critics): W. Benjamin, T. Adorno, L. Althusser, H. Marcuse  9.  Toni Morrison's "Beloved". (Critics): P. Nicholls, P. Gilroy, M. Henderson, H. Bhabha  10.  Salmon Rushdie. (Critics): P. Waugh, A. Ahmad, G. Spivak, T. Brennan.

Product Description:

This introductory reader consists of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th-century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is pecifically targetted to present literary criticism to 1st and 2nd year undergraduates through practical examples of essays by the literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example essays are included for each author/text presented.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0134425677
• ISBN 13: 9780134425672
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 508