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Theory of literature /
"Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Open Yale courses series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The prehistory and rise of "theory" ; 2. Introduction continued: Theory and functionalization
- First reflections on interpretation and reading. 3. Ways in and out of the hermeneutic circle ; 4. Configurative reading
- Text and structure. 5. The idea of the autonomous artwork ; 6. The New Criticism and other Western formalisms ; 7. Russian formalism ; 8. Semiotics and structuralism ; 9. Linguistics and literature ; 10. Deconstruction I: Jacques Derrida ; 11. Deconstruction II: Paul de Man
- Author (reader) and psyche. 12. Freud and fiction ; 13. Jacques Lacan in theory ; 14. Influence ; 15. The postmodern psyche
- The social context. 16. The social permeability of reader and text ; 17. The Frankfurt School of critical theory ; 18. The political unconscious ; 19. The new historicism ; 20. The classical feminist tradition ; 21. African American criticism ; 22. Postcolonial criticism ; 23. Queer theory and gender performativity ; 24. The institutional construction of literary study
- Theory con and pro. 25. The end of theory? Neo-pragmatism ; 26. Conclusion: Who doesn't hate theory now?
- Appendix: Passages referenced in lectures
- Notes
- The varieties of interpretation: a guide to further reading in literary theory / by Stefan Esposito
- Index.