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How to interpret literature: critical theory for literary and cultural studies
2015, Oxford University Press
in English
- Third edition.
0199331162 9780199331161
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. New criticism. Before new criticism ; Key concepts for new critical interpretation ; Historicizing the new criticism : rethinking literary unity ; The intentional fallacy and the affective fallacy ; How to interpret : a new critical example ; The influence of new criticism
3. Structuralism. Key concepts in structuralism ; How to interpret : structuralism in cultural and literary studies ; The death of the author
How to interpret : the detective novel ; Structuralism, formalism and literary history ; The structuralist study of narrative : narratology ; How to interpret : focalization and free indirect discourse ; Narrative syntax, and metaphor and metonymy
4. Deconstruction. Key concepts in deconstruction ; How to interpret : a deconstructionist example ; Writing, speech, and différance ; Deconstruction beyond Derrida ; Deconstruction, essentialism, and identity ; How to interpret : furhter deconstrucionist examples
5. Psychoanalysis. Clinical psychoanalysis : Key concepts in psychoanalysis : the psychoanalytic understanding of the mind ; Sigmund Freud ; How to interpret : models of psychoanalytic interpretation ; From The interpretation of dreams to the interpretation of literature ; How to interpret : further psychoanalytic examples ; Jacques Lacan ; How to interpret : a Lacanian example
6. Feminism. What is feminism? ; Early feminist criticism ; Sex and gender ; Feminisms ; How to interpret : feminist examples ; Feminism and visual pleasure ; Intersectionality and the interdisciplinary ethos of contemporary feminism
7. Queer studies. Key concepts in queer studies ; How to interpret : a queer studies example ; Queer studies and history ; Outing : writers, characters, and the literary closet ; Homosociality and homosexual panic ; Queer of color critique ; Questions that queer studies critics ask
8. Marxism. Key concepts in Marxism ; Lukács, Gramsci, and Marxist interpretations of culture ; Contemporary Marxism, ideology, and agency ; How to interpret : an example from popular culture ; Variations in Marxist criticism ; How to interpret : further Marxist examples
9. Historicism and cultural studies. New historicism ; How to interpret : historicist examples ; Michel Foucault ; Cultural studies ; How to interpret : a cultural studies example ; Cultural studies, historicism, and literature
10. Postcolonial and race studies. Postcolonialism ; From Orientalism to deconstruction : Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak ; How to interpret : a postcolonial studies example ; Race studies ; How to interpret : postcolonial and race studies examples ; Postcolonial and race studies and literary studies
11. Reader response. Ideal, implied, and actual readers ; Structuralist models of reading and communication ; Aesthetic judgment, interpretive communities, and resisting readers ; Reception theory and reception history ; Paranoid, suspicious, and symptomatic reading versus surface reading ; Readers and the new technologies
12. Recent and emerging developments : ecocriticism and disability studies. Ecocriticism and environmental criticism ; Disability studies ; A future for critical theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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