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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... truth . With the advent of Plato and his Academy , however , philosophical inquiry and abstract thinking usurp the narrative as a method for discovering truth . Not by accident , then , Plato placed above his school door the words " Let ...
... truth . With the advent of Plato and his Academy , however , philosophical inquiry and abstract thinking usurp the narrative as a method for discovering truth . Not by accident , then , Plato placed above his school door the words " Let ...
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... truth . The truth discoverable through an aesthetic experience , however , is distinguishable from the truth that science provides us . Science speaks propositionally , telling us whether a statement is demonstrably either true or false ...
... truth . The truth discoverable through an aesthetic experience , however , is distinguishable from the truth that science provides us . Science speaks propositionally , telling us whether a statement is demonstrably either true or false ...
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... truth / deception hierarchy , for example , Western thought would assert the supremacy of truth over deception , attributing to decep- tion a mere supplementary role . Such a logocentric way of thinking asserts the purity of truth over ...
... truth / deception hierarchy , for example , Western thought would assert the supremacy of truth over deception , attributing to decep- tion a mere supplementary role . Such a logocentric way of thinking asserts the purity of truth over ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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