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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis | |
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Basics of Literary Study | |
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Comprehension versus Interpretation | |
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Common Critical Practices | |
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Close Reading | |
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Contextual Analysis | |
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Application of a Critical Approach | |
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Social Criticism | |
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Literary Language | |
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Multiple Meanings | |
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Poetry and Plurisignation | |
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Hermeneutics | |
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Peshat and Derash | |
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Medieval Hermeneutics: The Fourfold Method | |
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Sympathetic Analogies | |
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The Rise of Modern Literary Interpretation | |
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Philosophical Hermeneutics | |
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The Hermeneutic Circle | |
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Major Twentieth-Century Schools of Critical Analysis | |
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Traditional and New Historicisms | |
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New Criticism | |
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Marxism | |
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Structuralism | |
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Phenomenological Literary Analysis | |
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Psychoanalytic Criticism | |
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Reader Response Criticism | |
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Post-Structuralism | |
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Sodo-Political Analyses | |
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Feminism | |
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Social Constructivism: Berger and Luckmann versus Michel Foucault | |
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Race Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Ethnic Studies | |
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Cultural, Global, and Post-Colonial Studies | |
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Tools for Reading Narrative | |
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Story and Plot: Fabula and Syuzhet | |
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Order | |
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Analepsis and Prolepsis | |
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Mimesis and Diegesis | |
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Free Indirect Discourse | |
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Interior Monologue | |
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Diachronic and Synchronic | |
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Intertextuality | |
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Dialogism | |
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Chronotope | |
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Character Zone | |
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Focalization | |
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Narrative Codes | |
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Tools for Reading Poetry | |
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Tropes | |
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Elision | |
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Resemblance | |
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Juxtaposition | |
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Analogy | |
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Allegory | |
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Emulation | |
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Imitation | |
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Objective Correlative | |
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Language Poetry | |
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The New Sentence | |
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Sound Poetry/Concrete Poetry | |
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Prosody | |
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Tools for Reading Performance | |
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Performance Studies | |
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Realist Theatre: Total Acting | |
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Konstantin Stanislavski | |
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Lee Strasberg (The Method), David Mamet (Practical Aesthetics), Mary Overlie (The Six Viewpoints Approach) | |
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Epic Theatre | |
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Theatre of Cruelty | |
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Actions | |
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Play | |
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Happenings | |
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Performance Art | |
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Guerrilla Theatre | |
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Tools for Reading Texts as Systems | |
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Aristotle and Form | |
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The Literary Work as Object of Rational Empiricism | |
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Saussurean Linguistics | |
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L�vi-Strauss and Structuralism | |
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Roman Jakobson's Communication Model | |
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Roland Barthes' Hierarchical Structures | |
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Functions | |
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Actions | |
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Narration | |
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Ideality and Phenomenology of the Literary Object: Husserl and Derrida | |
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Dissemination | |
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Structure as Rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari | |
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Permutation | |
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Undecidability: Derrida, G�del, Lacan | |
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Simulating Systems: Jean Baudrillard | |
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Counterfeiting | |
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Production | |
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Simulation | |
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Multiplicity: Badiou | |
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Tools for Social Analysis | |
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The Public Sphere | |
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Habermas and the Frankfurt School | |
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The Public Sphere versus Hegemony: Laclau and Mouffe | |
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Ideology | |
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Political Ideology | |
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Top-down Ideology | |
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Ideology as Class Consciousness | |
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Ideology as False Consciousness | |
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Ideology as Semiotic Representation | |
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Ideology as Social Interpellation | |
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Theories of Power | |
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Might Makes Right versus the Good Shepherd | |
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Master/Slave Dialectics and the Recognition of Power: Hegel, Koj�ve, Sartre, Lacan | |
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Behaviorism: Stick and Carrot | |
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Capillary Power | |
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The Social Relation | |
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Primitive Social Relations | |
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Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics | |
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From Divine Right to Social Contract | |
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Marx on The Social Relation | |
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Alterity: The Relation of Non-relation | |
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Index | |