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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... allow mean- ing to occur . These codes or signs embedded in the text are part of a larger system that allows meaning to occur in all facets of READER - RESPONSE CRITICISM 51 Methodology.
... allow mean- ing to occur . These codes or signs embedded in the text are part of a larger system that allows meaning to occur in all facets of READER - RESPONSE CRITICISM 51 Methodology.
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... allows us to see the impossibility of ever choosing a correct interpretation , for mean- ing is an ongoing activity that is always in progress , always based upon différance . By asking what will happen if we reverse the hierarchies ...
... allows us to see the impossibility of ever choosing a correct interpretation , for mean- ing is an ongoing activity that is always in progress , always based upon différance . By asking what will happen if we reverse the hierarchies ...
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... allows us to privilege the forest and solitude as opposed to civilization and the city . As we privilege the dark ... allow her dream - inspired warning to take precedence , then we must also privi- lege the dream at the end of the story ...
... allows us to privilege the forest and solitude as opposed to civilization and the city . As we privilege the dark ... allow her dream - inspired warning to take precedence , then we must also privi- lege the dream at the end of the story ...
Inhoudsopgave
Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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