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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... concept ) . For example , when we hear the sound combination ball , the sound is the signifier and the concept of a ball that comes to our minds is the signified . Like the two sides of a sheet of paper , the linguistic sign is the ...
... concept ) . For example , when we hear the sound combination ball , the sound is the signifier and the concept of a ball that comes to our minds is the signified . Like the two sides of a sheet of paper , the linguistic sign is the ...
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... concept of a container that can be filled . But in the sentence The container was filled with glass , the spoken or written word container , a signified in the previous sen- tence , is now a signifier , its signified being the concept ...
... concept of a container that can be filled . But in the sentence The container was filled with glass , the spoken or written word container , a signified in the previous sen- tence , is now a signifier , its signified being the concept ...
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... concept of the universe Derrida readily admits . To " decenter " any transcendental signified is to be caught up automati- cally in the terminology that allows that centering concept to operate . For example , if the concept self ...
... concept of the universe Derrida readily admits . To " decenter " any transcendental signified is to be caught up automati- cally in the terminology that allows that centering concept to operate . For example , if the concept self ...
Inhoudsopgave
Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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