Dr Paul Goring, Professor Jeremy Hawthorn, Professor Domhnall Mitchell

Studying Literature

The Essential Companion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Studying Literature combines practical advice on study skills, from using the library to preparation for exams, with a comprehensive overview of literary theories and theorists. It is an ideal introduction to the subject for university students. New to this edition is a section on how to access and effectively use digital resources.

Produktdetails

• Studying...
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9780340985120
• ISBN-10: 0340985127
• Artikelnr.: 29011861

Autorenporträt

Paul Goring, Jeremy Hawthorn and Domhnall Mitchell

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction Introducing your companion Using the companion
Cross-referencing Section 1: Guide to Studying Literature at University
Introduction What type of guide is this? Is such a guide really necessary?
'Literary', 'primary', 'secondary': a note on terminology Getting organised
Your degree scheme Preparing for courses Getting the most from lectures,
seminars and tutorials Using the library Reading literary texts Reading and
studying: general points Reading prose fiction: novels, novellas and short
stories Reading drama Reading poetry Literary criticism What is literary
criticism? How to find relevant criticism Using criticism Writing essays
Analyzing the question Formulating and structuring an argument Applying
literary theory in essays Writing Guidelines on presentation/style
Plagiarism and how to avoid it Making a presentation Exams Preparation and
revision Taking exams Section 2: Guide to the use of electronic resources
Some introductory comments Finding primary electronic information Issues of
reliability Reading in the electronic age Searching and analyzing
electronic texts Finding secondary materials Searching the Internet for
literary resources Evaluating online secondary sources Useful sites
Documenting electronic media Revising and editing electronically Safety
measures Section 3: Theories and approaches Introduction: Living with
theory Molière's Monsieur Jourdain Reinventing the wheel The theoretical
'object' Types of theory Descriptive or prescriptive? Literature-specific?
Butcher or biologist? School or theory? Chosen or thrust-upon? Theory and
method A note on our groupings Formalisms Russian Formalism The Prague
School New Criticism The Hermeneutic tradition Hermeneutics Phenomenology
Reception theory Reader-response criticism Structuralism and its progeny
Structuralism Semiology/semiotics Narratology Post-structuralism
Deconstruction Pragmatics and the reaction against structuralism Speech act
theory Psychological and psychoanalytic theories Psychoanalytic criticism
Archetypal criticism Cognitive criticism 'Isms' Marxist theory and
criticism The Frankfurt School New historicism and cultural materialism
Thing theory Postcolonialism Ecocriticism Feminism Queer theory Section 4:
Guide to literary theorists Mikhail Bakhtin Roland Barthes Simone de
Beauvoir Walter Benjamin Homi K. Bhabha Harold Bloom Bertolt Brecht Hélène
Cixous Jacques Derrida Terry Eagleton Umberto Eco T.S. Eliot William Empson
Stanley Fish Michel Foucault Northrop Frye Henry Louis Gates, Jr Gérard
Genette Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar Lucien Goldmann Stephen Jay
Greenblatt E.D. Hirsch Jr bell hooks Luce Irigaray Wolfgang Iser Roman
Jakobson Fredric Jameson Julia Kristeva Jacques Lacan F.R. Leavis Georg
Lukács Jean-François Lyotard Jerome McGann Paul de Man J. Hillis Miller
Kate Millett Franco Moretti James Phelan Vladimir Propp I.A. Richards Paul
Ricoeur Edward Said Ferdinand de Saussure Viktor Shklovsky Elaine Showalter
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Tzvetan Todorov René Wellek Raymond Williams
Virginia Woolf Section 5: Glossary of literary and theoretical terms
Bibliography Index