Hans Bertens

Literary Theory: The Basics

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Produktbeschreibung

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Providing the ideal first step in understanding the often bewildering world of literary theory, this text is an easy to follow and clearly presented introduction to this fascinating area.

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With a new introduction and fully updated pointers to further reading, this third edition of Hans Bertens’ 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.

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'If you want to know where literary criticism is at right now, look no further than this.' - www.mantex.co.uk

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 3rd edition
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780415396714
• ISBN-10: 0415396719
• Artikelnr.: 23088242

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading for Meaning: Practical Criticism and New Criticism
Chapter 2 Reading for Form and Function: Formalism and Early Structuralism,
1914-1960
Chapter 3 Reading for Form II: French Structuralism, 1950-1975
Chapter 4 Political Reading: Class, Gender, and Race in the 1970s and 1980s
Chapter 5 The Poststructuralist Revolution
Chapter 6 Literature and Culture: Cultural Studies, the New Historicism,
Cultural Materialism
Chapter 7 Postcolonial Criticism and Theory
Chapter 8 Sexuality, Literature, Culture and Queer Studies
Chapter 9 Decentring the Human: Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, New
Materialism, Animal Studies
Chapter 10 'Theory', Post-Theory, New Challenges
Bibliography
Index

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Introduction 1. Reading for meaning: practical criticism and New Criticism 2. Reading for Form I: Formulism and easy structuralism, 1914-60 3. Reading for form II: French Structuralism, 1950-75 4. Political Reading: the 1970s and 1980s 5. The Postructuralist revolution: Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism 6.Postructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, and French feminism 7. Literature and culture: the new historicism and cultural materialism 8. Postcolonial criticism and theory 9.Sexuality, Literature, and culture 10. Ecocriticism 11. New Directions Conclusion