Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world - Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot, and Octavia Butler - it picks up different aspects of studying literature in an accessible format. The volume also brings together chapters that represent major modern literary schools of thought, including structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction. This book will be of great interest…mehr
Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world - Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot, and Octavia Butler - it picks up different aspects of studying literature in an accessible format. The volume also brings together chapters that represent major modern literary schools of thought, including structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and critical theory, as well as culture studies.
Sk Sagir Ali is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism (Routledge) and the monograph, Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming, Routledge).
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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction - Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys
SK SAGIR ALI
PART I
Myth Criticism
1 Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour: A Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
DEBADITYA MUKHOPADHYAY
PART II
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
2 Emily Dickinson's "Nature": A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a Poststructuralist Hermeneutic
MOUSUMI GUHA BANERJEE
3 Narrating the "New City/ies": Urban Studies in Literature and Cityscapes in Graphic Novels
SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE
4 "To Save the Tale From the Artist": A Deconstructive Reading of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
SANKAR PRASAD SINGHA
5 Orpheus's Gaze and the Blanchotian Literature of the Unword: Locating the Ethical Finitudes of the Il y a in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
SWAYAMDIPTA DAS
PART III
Psychoanalytic Criticism
6 The Whore and the Virgin: Sexual Non-Rapport in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Dialectics of the Obsessional Subject
DEEPTESH SEN
7 Truth in Literature: Lacan's Joyce and the Question of Applied Psychoanalysis
DIPANJAN MAITRA
8 Rewriting the Psychotic Other of Author-Function in Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake 93
ARKA CHATTOPADHYAY
PART IV
Queer Theory
9 "He Had Beauty, Though": The Queerness of Ruskin Bond's Delhi Is Not Far
NILADRI R. CHATTERJEE
PART V
Reader-Response Criticism
10 The Problematic of Reading: The Intra-Textual Readers in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
MAMATA SENGUPTA
PART VI
New Historicism
11 Revisiting the Rushdiean peeling, fragmenting palimpsest called Pakistan: A New Historicist-Feminist Approach
NASIMA ISLAM
PART VII
Marxism
12 Marxism and Literary Thought: A View
ANAND PRAKASH
PART VIII
Postcolonialism
13 "This Is Not Knowledge; This Is Vanity": Phrenology and the Mimicry of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason
SAKOON SINGH
PART IX
Cultural Study
14 Politics of Purity and Pollution: A Study of Cultural Voyeurism in Kanthapura
SK SAGIR ALI
15 Abuse, Coercion, and Power in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
SHILADITYA SEN
PART X
Translation Study
16 Intermediality and Translation: Pedagogical Possibilities
