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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... social forces at work at the time a text is written or is being interpreted . In addition , this added crite- rion forces the critic to investigate the scheme of social relationships not only within the text itself but also outside the ...
... social forces at work at the time a text is written or is being interpreted . In addition , this added crite- rion forces the critic to investigate the scheme of social relationships not only within the text itself but also outside the ...
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... social elite inevitably forces its ideas upon the working classes . Almost without their knowing it , the working ... social , economic , and political oppression if they will only recognize that they are presently not free agents but ...
... social elite inevitably forces its ideas upon the working classes . Almost without their knowing it , the working ... social , economic , and political oppression if they will only recognize that they are presently not free agents but ...
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... social produc- tion . Since they believe that meaning evolves from the interaction of the variously interwoven social discourses , no hierarchy of discourses can exist , for all are necessary and must be investigated in the process of ...
... social produc- tion . Since they believe that meaning evolves from the interaction of the variously interwoven social discourses , no hierarchy of discourses can exist , for all are necessary and must be investigated in the process of ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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