Literary and Cultural Theory From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications

by Hall, Donald E.

• ISBN13: 9780395929193
• ISBN10: 0395929199
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-23
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and Application Essays by well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Faulkner, and Angelou, represent the stated principles. The text helps students generate consistent, well-focused analyses based on any of ten critical methodologies, including New Criticism, Psychoanalytic Analysis, Deconstruction, Feminist Analysis, and New Historicism.

Table of Contents

Note

Each chapter begins with an Overview

Key Principles, and a Bibliography

An Application includes

Reading Prompts, the reading (listed below), and an Analysis of Application

Introduction: From Aesthetics to Cultural Studies: The Many Productive Forms of Critical Analysis

The New Criticism and Formalist Analysis Wordsworth and the Paradox of the Imagination

Reader-Response Analysis Perception, Temporality, and Action as Modes of Subjectivity

"The Soun

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