Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and PracticePrentice Hall, 1994 - 204 pagina's This introduction to literary theory and criticism, its historical development and the variety of theoretical positions or schools of criticism, is designed to help students take conscious, informed and intelligent choices concerning their own methods of literary interpretation. Plato to Henry James. It discusses each of the eight basic schools of theoretical positions concerning literary theory and criticism separately: new criticism; reader-response criticism; structuralism; deconstruction; psychoanalytic criticism; feminism; Marxism; and new historicism. Three works of literature are included: Nathanial Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown; Robert Browning's poem, My Last Duchess; and Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles. |
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Pagina 61
... Saussure dubs langue , the structure of the language that is mas- tered and shared by all its speakers . While langue emphasizes the social aspect of language , an individual's actual speech utterances Saussure calls parole . A speaker ...
... Saussure dubs langue , the structure of the language that is mas- tered and shared by all its speakers . While langue emphasizes the social aspect of language , an individual's actual speech utterances Saussure calls parole . A speaker ...
Pagina 62
... Saussure declares , “ in language there are only differences . " Since signs are arbitrary , conventional , and differential , Saussure con- cludes that the proper study of language is not an examination of isolated entities but of the ...
... Saussure declares , “ in language there are only differences . " Since signs are arbitrary , conventional , and differential , Saussure con- cludes that the proper study of language is not an examination of isolated entities but of the ...
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... Saussure . Before Saussure , linguists believed that the structure of language was mimetic , merely mimicking the outside world ; language , then , had no structure of its own . It simply copied its structure from the reality exhibited ...
... Saussure . Before Saussure , linguists believed that the structure of language was mimetic , merely mimicking the outside world ; language , then , had no structure of its own . It simply copied its structure from the reality exhibited ...
Inhoudsopgave
Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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