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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... wife , who might as well have been an animal , an object lacking the worth of a human being . By killing his wife and framing her likeness , the Duke turns her into a thing , a painting only representing the human being she used to be ...
... wife , who might as well have been an animal , an object lacking the worth of a human being . By killing his wife and framing her likeness , the Duke turns her into a thing , a painting only representing the human being she used to be ...
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... wife because he con- sidered her to be flippant and immature , and he was sure no proper Duch- ess would lack seriousness . He believes his wife , being a Duchess , should have acted as a Duchess would , with all the aristocratic ...
... wife because he con- sidered her to be flippant and immature , and he was sure no proper Duch- ess would lack seriousness . He believes his wife , being a Duchess , should have acted as a Duchess would , with all the aristocratic ...
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... wife . And Faith , as the wife was aptly named , thrust her own pretty head into the street , letting the wind play with the pink ribbons on her cap while she called to Goodman Brown . " Dearest heart , " whispered she , softly and ...
... wife . And Faith , as the wife was aptly named , thrust her own pretty head into the street , letting the wind play with the pink ribbons on her cap while she called to Goodman Brown . " Dearest heart , " whispered she , softly and ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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