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9780415396714

Literary Theory: The Basics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415396714

  • ISBN10:

    0415396719

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2007-11-15
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

With a new introduction and fully updated pointers to further reading, this third edition of Hans Bertensa?? bestselling book is a must-have guide to the world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to post-modernism and new historicism it includes new coverage of: the latest developments in post-colonial and cultural theory literature and sexuality the latest schools of thought, including eco-criticism and post-humanism the future of literary theory and criticism. Literary Theory: the Basics is an essential purchase for anyone who wants to know what literary theory is and where it is going.

Table of Contents

Reading for meaning
practical criticism
Reading for form
formalism and early structuralism, 1914-1960
Reading for form
french structuralism, 1950-1975
Political Reading
the 1970s and 1980s
The Poststructuralist Revolution
Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism
Postructuralism continued
Foucault, Lacan, french femenism
Literature and culture
The new historicism and cultural imperialism
Postcolonial criticism and theory
Sexuality, literature and cultural materialism
Ecocriticism
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