Introducing Literary Theories (eBook, PDF)

A Guide and Glossary
Redaktion: Wolfreys, Julian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing Literary Theories is an ideal introduction for those coming to literary theory for the first time. It provides an accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches in chapters covering: Bakhtinian Criticism, Structuralism, Feminist Theory, Marxist Literary Theories, Reader-Response Theories, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Postcolonial Theory, Gay Studies/ Queer Theories, Cultural Studies and Postmodernism.

A table of contents arranged by theoretical method and a second arranged by key texts offer the reader alternative pathways through the volume and a general introduction, which traces the history and importance of literary theory, complete the introductory material.

In each of the following chapters, the authors provide a clear presentation of the theory in question and notes towards a reading of a key text to help the student understand both the methodology and the practice of literary theory. The texts used for illustration include: In Memoriam A. H. H., Middlemarch, Mrs Dalloway, Paradise Lost, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Prospero''s Books, The Swimming Pool Library and The Tempest. Every chapter ends with a set of questions for further consideration, an annotated bibliography and a supplementary bibliography while a glossary of critical terms completes the book.

Derived and adapted from the successful foundation textbook, Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide, Introducing Literary Theories is a highly readable, self-contained and comprehensive guide that succeeds in making contemporary theory easily understandable.

Each chapter provides:

An overview of the theory

Notes towards readings of canonical literary texts

Questions for further consideration

An annotated bibliography

A supplementary bibliography

Key Features

• Complex ideas are clearly explained
• A double table of contents provides different ways of navigating through the volume
• Coverage of the theories is balanced with analysis of key texts
• Questions at the end of each chapter direct the reader to consider further theoretical matters and to making theoretically informed readings of literary texts
• Includes full guidance about further reading
• Offers an ideal guide for students at all levels who are new to literary theory as well as general readers
• Provides a Glossary of critical terms for easy reference

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474473637
• Artikelnr.: 72428465

Autorenporträt

Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in LIterature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens's London and The Derrida Wordbook, both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of Works Cited
Introduction, Julian Wolfreys
1. R. Brandon Kershner: Mikhail Bakhtin and Bakhtinian criticism
Notes towards a reading of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
2. K.M. Newton: Roland Barthes and structuralist criticism
Notes towards a reading of Middlemarch
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
3. Ruth Robbins: Will the real feminist theory please stand up?
Notes towards readings of Mrs Dalloway and Middlemarch
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
4. Moyra Haslett: The politics of literature: Marxist Literary Theories
Notes towards a reading of Mrs Dalloway
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
5. Martin McQuillan: There is no such thing as reader-response theory
Notes towards a reading of Mrs Dalloway
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
6. Jill Barker: The self, the other, and the text: Psychoanalytic Criticism
Notes towards a reading of The Tempest
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
7. Julian Wolfreys: Deconstruction, what remains unread
Notes towards a reading of In Memoriam A.H.H.
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
8. Mark Currie: Criticism and creativity: Poststructuralist Theories
Notes towards a reading of Mrs Dalloway
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
9. John Brannigan: History, power, and politics in the literary artifact: New Historicism
Notes towards readings of The Tempest & In Memoriam A.H.H
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
10. John Brannigan: Conflict and contradiction: Cultural Materialism
Notes towards readings of The Tempest & In Memoriam A.H.H
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
11. Gail Low & Julian Wolfreys: Postcolonialism and the difficulty of
difference
Notes towards readings of The Tempest & The Swimming-Pool Library
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
12. Jane Goldman & Julian Wolfreys: Works on the Wild(e) side - performing,
transgressing, queering: Gay Studies/Queer Theories
Notes towards a reading of The Swimming-Pool Library
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
13. Kenneth Womack: Theorizing culture, reading ourselves: Cultural Studies
Notes towards readings of The Swimming-Pool Library & Prospero's Books
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
14. Arkady Plotnitsky: Postmodernism and Postmodernity: Literature,
Criticism,
Philosophy, Culture
Notes towards readings of The Tempest & Paradise Lost
Questions for further consideration
Annotated bibliography
Supplementary bibliography
Glossary
Index
Alternative Contents
In Memoriam. A.H.H: Deconstruction, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism
Middlemarch: Structuralism, Feminist Theory
Mrs Dalloway: Feminist Theory, Marxist Literary Theories, Reader-Response Theory, Poststructuralist Theories
Paradise Lost: Postmodernism
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Bakhtin and Bakhtinian Criticism
Prospero¹s Books: Psychoanalytic Criticism, Cultural Studies
The Swimming-Pool Library: Gay Studies/Queer Theories, Postcolonialism,
Cultural Studies
The Tempest: Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism,
Postcolonialism, Postmodernism.