This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative works and authors like Joyce, Dickinson, Beckett, Eliot. It also examines modern literary schools of thought: structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.
This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative works and authors like Joyce, Dickinson, Beckett, Eliot. It also examines modern literary schools of thought: structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 TUTUN MUKHERJEE Index
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 TUTUN MUKHERJEE Index
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