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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... play ; it is presented in dramatic , not narrative form , and achieves , through the representation of pitiable and fearful in- cidents , the catharsis of such pitiable and fearful incidents . When put in context with other ideas in the ...
... play ; it is presented in dramatic , not narrative form , and achieves , through the representation of pitiable and fearful in- cidents , the catharsis of such pitiable and fearful incidents . When put in context with other ideas in the ...
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... play will have on the audience's emotions . Will it arouse the spectators ' pity or fear ? Will these emotions purge the viewer ? Will they cleanse a spectator of all emotions by the play's end ? Such interest in audience response to ...
... play will have on the audience's emotions . Will it arouse the spectators ' pity or fear ? Will these emotions purge the viewer ? Will they cleanse a spectator of all emotions by the play's end ? Such interest in audience response to ...
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... play then if he did not know the play's historical context . That historians can articulate a unified and internally consistent worldview of any given people , country , or time period and can recon- struct an accurate and objective ...
... play then if he did not know the play's historical context . That historians can articulate a unified and internally consistent worldview of any given people , country , or time period and can recon- struct an accurate and objective ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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