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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... stories are composed of grammatical units . For Todorov , the syntax of narrative - how the various grammatical elements of a story combine - is essential . By applying a grammatical model to narrative , Todorov believes he can discover ...
... stories are composed of grammatical units . For Todorov , the syntax of narrative - how the various grammatical elements of a story combine - is essential . By applying a grammatical model to narrative , Todorov believes he can discover ...
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... story . In this kind of story , all our wishes are fulfilled and we can achieve total happi- ness . At the bottom of the circle is winter or the anti - romance phase . Being the opposite of summer , this phase tells the story of bondage ...
... story . In this kind of story , all our wishes are fulfilled and we can achieve total happi- ness . At the bottom of the circle is winter or the anti - romance phase . Being the opposite of summer , this phase tells the story of bondage ...
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... story of total happiness and wish fulfillment ) , anti - romance ( the win- ter story of bondage , imprisonment , frustration , and fear ) , comedy ( the spring story that tells of our rise from frustration to freedom and happiness ) ...
... story of total happiness and wish fulfillment ) , anti - romance ( the win- ter story of bondage , imprisonment , frustration , and fear ) , comedy ( the spring story that tells of our rise from frustration to freedom and happiness ) ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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