Texts: Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches - Brossura

Childs, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748620443 ISBN 13: 9780748620449

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Being able to analyse different types of text is an essential skill for students of literature. Texts is a new kind of book which shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural and media texts of the kind studied on today's courses. These texts range from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites and lyrics to films such as The Matrix and Harry Potter and from television's Big Brother to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using one of sixteen key approaches, from established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism, trauma theory, and ethical criticism. Each chapter also indicates alternative ways of reading the text by drawing on other critical approaches.

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L'autore:

Peter Childs is Dean of Research, Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Gloucestershire

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0748620443
• ISBN 13: 9780748620449
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 177