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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... culture through the eyes of its methods of economic produc- tion . Assumptions Marxism is not primarily a literary theory that can be used to interpret a text . Unlike other schools of criticism , it is first a set of social , economic ...
... culture through the eyes of its methods of economic produc- tion . Assumptions Marxism is not primarily a literary theory that can be used to interpret a text . Unlike other schools of criticism , it is first a set of social , economic ...
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... culture being defined by Geertz as " a set of control mechanisms— plans , recipes , rules , instructions " for the governing of behavior . Adapting Geertz's anthropological methodology for describing culture as " thick de- scription ...
... culture being defined by Geertz as " a set of control mechanisms— plans , recipes , rules , instructions " for the governing of behavior . Adapting Geertz's anthropological methodology for describing culture as " thick de- scription ...
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... culture . To avoid the old historicism's " error " of thinking that each historical period evidences a single , political worldview , New Historicism avoids sweeping generalizations and seeks out the seemingly insignificant details and ...
... culture . To avoid the old historicism's " error " of thinking that each historical period evidences a single , political worldview , New Historicism avoids sweeping generalizations and seeks out the seemingly insignificant details and ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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