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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Pagina 67
... Look at Glaspell's Trifles Susan Glaspell's Trifles centers around the investigation of John Wright's murder and takes place entirely within the walls of his farm- house kitchen . Only five characters command the stage . Three are men ...
... Look at Glaspell's Trifles Susan Glaspell's Trifles centers around the investigation of John Wright's murder and takes place entirely within the walls of his farm- house kitchen . Only five characters command the stage . Three are men ...
Pagina 152
... look at his pale wife , and Faith at him . What polluted wretches would the next glance show them to each other , shuddering alike at what they dis- closed and what they saw ! " Faith ! Faith ! " cried the husband , “ look up to heaven ...
... look at his pale wife , and Faith at him . What polluted wretches would the next glance show them to each other , shuddering alike at what they dis- closed and what they saw ! " Faith ! Faith ! " cried the husband , “ look up to heaven ...
Pagina 161
... look at this one . Here , this is the one she was working on , and look at the sewing ! All the rest of it has been so nice and even . And look at this ! It's all over the place ! Why , it looks as if she didn't know what she was about ...
... look at this one . Here , this is the one she was working on , and look at the sewing ! All the rest of it has been so nice and even . And look at this ! It's all over the place ! Why , it looks as if she didn't know what she was about ...
Inhoudsopgave
Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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