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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... tion will reveal the dominant ideas or worldview held by people at that particular time and will therefore help us identify and understand the characters ' actions , motivations , and concerns more fully than if we did not have such ...
... tion will reveal the dominant ideas or worldview held by people at that particular time and will therefore help us identify and understand the characters ' actions , motivations , and concerns more fully than if we did not have such ...
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... tion of either Wordsworth or Coleridge that the reader suspend disbelief while reading a text . For James , a text must first be realistic , a representa- tion of life as it is and one that is recognizable to its readers . Bad novels ...
... tion of either Wordsworth or Coleridge that the reader suspend disbelief while reading a text . For James , a text must first be realistic , a representa- tion of life as it is and one that is recognizable to its readers . Bad novels ...
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... tion to his Puritanical " Light . " In this case , Brown's Puritan God repre- sents the icon of Brown's unreasoned faith , for his faith in God consists of blindly following his wife to heaven , but his doubt begins with reason . Truth ...
... tion to his Puritanical " Light . " In this case , Brown's Puritan God repre- sents the icon of Brown's unreasoned faith , for his faith in God consists of blindly following his wife to heaven , but his doubt begins with reason . Truth ...
Inhoudsopgave
Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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