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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... interpretation itself and not in the text . Still others believe that the primary signifying system is best found as a series of binary oppositions that the reader organizes , values , and then uses to interpret the text . Each binary ...
... interpretation itself and not in the text . Still others believe that the primary signifying system is best found as a series of binary oppositions that the reader organizes , values , and then uses to interpret the text . Each binary ...
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... interpretations and that it allows itself to be reread and thus reinterpreted countless times . Since no one correct interpretation of a text exists , the joy of textual analysis resides in discovering new interpre- tations each time a ...
... interpretations and that it allows itself to be reread and thus reinterpreted countless times . Since no one correct interpretation of a text exists , the joy of textual analysis resides in discovering new interpre- tations each time a ...
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... interpretation of the text . According to deconstructors , we cannot simultaneously see both of these views or levels in the story . To discover where the new hierarchy Satan / God or evil / good will lead us in our interpretation , we ...
... interpretation of the text . According to deconstructors , we cannot simultaneously see both of these views or levels in the story . To discover where the new hierarchy Satan / God or evil / good will lead us in our interpretation , we ...
Inhoudsopgave
Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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