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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... darkness or evil . But to condemn this devil figure who asks Brown only to reason along the forest path would be to ... dark forest where Brown gained his own power to reason . The forest frees him from his city - bound naivete . In ...
... darkness or evil . But to condemn this devil figure who asks Brown only to reason along the forest path would be to ... dark forest where Brown gained his own power to reason . The forest frees him from his city - bound naivete . In ...
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... darkness , peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once . " A grave and dark - clad company , " quoth Goodman Brown . In truth they were such . Among them , quivering to and fro between gloom and splendor , appeared faces that would ...
... darkness , peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once . " A grave and dark - clad company , " quoth Goodman Brown . In truth they were such . Among them , quivering to and fro between gloom and splendor , appeared faces that would ...
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... darkness . The exact relationship between light and darkness , Derrida asserts , is not totally clear . Derrida uses ... dark when it is dusk ? Each term thus helps define the other and is necessary for the other to exist . Synchronic A ...
... darkness . The exact relationship between light and darkness , Derrida asserts , is not totally clear . Derrida uses ... dark when it is dusk ? Each term thus helps define the other and is necessary for the other to exist . Synchronic A ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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