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Literary theory : a guide for the perplexed / Mary Klages.

By: Series: Guides for the perplexedPublication details: London ; New York, NY : Continuum, 2006.Description: vi, 184 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780826490728 (hard.)
  • 0826490727 (hard.)
  • 9780826490735 (pbk.)
  • 0826490735 (pbk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN81 .K53 2006
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Contents:
What is 'literary theory?' -- Humanist literary theory : Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold -- Structuralism : Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss and 'the structural study of myth', Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism -- Deconstruction : Binary opposition, The role of the center, Bricolage -- Psychoanalysis : Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Interlude: 'self' to 'subject' -- Feminism : 'Pre-poststructuralist' feminist literary theory, Poststructuralist feminist literary theory, HeÌleÌne Cixous and 'The laugh of the Medusa', Luce Irigaray and 'This sex which is not one' -- Queer theory : Flexible sexuality?, Gay/lesbian studies, Interlude: history to historicism, Humanist history, New historicism -- Ideology and discourse : Marxist theory: a few basics, Louis Althusser and ideology, Mikhail Bakhtin and 'Discourse in the novel', Michel Foucault: discourse, power/knowledge, and the author function -- Race and Postcolonialism : Colonialism and 'English', Henry Louis Gates, Jr and 'The signifying monkey', Postcolonialism and Orientalism, Homi Bhaba and 'The location of culture', Gloria AnzalduÌa and 'Borderlands/La frontera' -- Postmodernism : Modernity, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-FrancÌois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Coda: what now?
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN81 .K53 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001013456

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is 'literary theory?' -- Humanist literary theory : Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold -- Structuralism : Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss and 'the structural study of myth', Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism -- Deconstruction : Binary opposition, The role of the center, Bricolage -- Psychoanalysis : Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Interlude: 'self' to 'subject' -- Feminism : 'Pre-poststructuralist' feminist literary theory, Poststructuralist feminist literary theory, HeÌleÌne Cixous and 'The laugh of the Medusa', Luce Irigaray and 'This sex which is not one' -- Queer theory : Flexible sexuality?, Gay/lesbian studies, Interlude: history to historicism, Humanist history, New historicism -- Ideology and discourse : Marxist theory: a few basics, Louis Althusser and ideology, Mikhail Bakhtin and 'Discourse in the novel', Michel Foucault: discourse, power/knowledge, and the author function -- Race and Postcolonialism : Colonialism and 'English', Henry Louis Gates, Jr and 'The signifying monkey', Postcolonialism and Orientalism, Homi Bhaba and 'The location of culture', Gloria AnzalduÌa and 'Borderlands/La frontera' -- Postmodernism : Modernity, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-FrancÌois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Coda: what now?

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