Hans Bertens (the Netherlands Utrecht University)

Literary Theory: The Basics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies and ecocriticism.

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Produktdetails

• The Basics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 127mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781032446929
• ISBN-10: 1032446927
• Artikelnr.: 70006103

Autorenporträt

Hans Bertens is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Past President of the International Comparative Literature Association. He has published in English and Dutch on postmodernism, American literature, and literary theory.

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