Hans Bertens

Literary Theory: The Basics

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Produktbeschreibung

This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics including:
reception theory and reader response theorythe new criticism of postmodernismthe 'after theory' debatepost-humanism, biopolitics and animal studiesaesthetics

Literary Theory: The Basics helps readers to approach the many theories and debates in this field with confidence. Now with updated case studies and further reading this is an essential purchase for anyone who strives to understand literary theory today.

Produktdetails

• The Basics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: Y137502
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780415538077
• ISBN-10: 0415538076
• Artikelnr.: 38079609

Autorenporträt

Hans Bertens is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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