Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/e presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this book explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism and provides a clear methodology for writing essays according to each school's beliefs and tenets.

ISBN 0205791697   Pages 352 ISBN13 9780205791699 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 402 Publisher Pearson Education (US)   Published in New Jersey Imprint Longman Inc   Previous ISBN 9780131534483 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 15 Oct 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 801.95   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

CONTENTS Foreword 1 Defining Criticism, Theory, and Literature Listening to a Conversation Eavesdropping on a Literature Classroom Can a Text Have More Than One Interpretation? How to Become a Literary Critic What is Literary Criticism? What is Literary Theory? Making Meaning from Text The Reading Process and Literary Theory What is Literature? Literature Theory and the Definition of Literature The Function of Literature and Literary Theory Beginning the Formal Study of Literature 2 A Historical Survey of Literary Theory Plato (C. 427 -- 347 B.C.E.) Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E) Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) Longinus (First Century C.E.) Plotinus (204-270 C.E.) Dante Alighiere (1265-1321) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Sir Philip Sydney ((1554-1586) John Dryden (1631-1700) Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Perce Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893) Matthew Arnold (18822-1888) Henry James (1843-1916) Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-175) Modern Literary Criticism 3 Russian Formalism and New Criticism Russian Formalism Bridging the Gap Between Russian Formalism and New Criticism Applying Russian Formalism to a Literary Text New Criticism Historical Development Assumptions Methodology Questions for Analysis Critiques and Responses Critical Essay "The Formalists Critics, Cleanth Brooks 4 Reader-Oriented Criticism Historical Development I.A. Richards Louise M. Rosenblatt Assumptions Methodology Structuralism Phenomenology Hans Robert Jauss Wolfgang Iser Subjective Criticism Norman Holland David Bleich A Two-Step Methodology Questions for Analysis Critiques and Responses Critical Essay: "The Case for Reader-Response Analysis," Stanley Fish 5 Modernity and Postmodernism: Structuralism and Deconstruction Modernity Poststructuralism and Postmodernism Modernity and Modernism Structuralism: Its Historical Development Pre-Sausseren Linguistics Saussure's Linguistic Revolution The Structure of Language Langue and Parole Saussure's Redefinition of a Word Assumptions of Structuralism Methodologies of Structuralism Claude Levi-Strauss Roland Barthes Vladimir Propp and Narratology Tvetan Todorov and Gerard Genette Jonathan Culler A Model of Interpretation From Structuralism to Poststructalism: Deconstruction Deconstruction: Its Historical Development Deconstruction: Its Beginnings Derrida's Starting Place: Structuralism Derrida's Interpretation of Saussure's Sign Assumptions of Deconstruction Transcendental Signified Logocentrism Binary Oppositions Phonocentrism Metaphysics of Presence Methodology Acknowledging Binary Operations in Western Thought Arche-writing Supplementation Differance Deconstructive Suppositions for Textual Analysis Deconstructive: A New Reading Strategy American Deconstructionists Questions for Analysis Critiques and Responses Critical Essay "What Is Criticism?" Roland Barthes Critical Essay "Convention and Meaning" Jonathan Culler 6 Psychoanalytic Criticism Historical Development Sigmund Freud Model of the Human Psyche: Dynamic Model Economic Model Typographical Models Freud's Pre-Oedipal Development Phase The Oedipus, Castration, and Electra Complexes The Significance of Dreams Literature and Psychoanalysis Carl G. Jung Northrop Frye Jacques Lacan Lacan's Model of the Human Psyche Lacan and Textual Analysis The Present State of Psychoanalytic Criticism Assumptions Methodologies Questions and Analysis Critiques and Responses Critical Essay: "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry," C.G. Jung 7 Feminism Historical Development Virginia Woolf Simone de Beauvoir Kate Millet Feminism in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s Elaine Showalter Geographical Strains of Feminism American French Present-day Feminist Criticisms Ecofeminism Assumptions Methodology Questions for Analysis Critiques and Responses Critical Essay: "Dancing through the Minefield: Some

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