Literature in the Modern World Critical Essays and Documents

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ISBN: 9780199253012

ISBN-10: 0199253013

ISBN-13: 9780199253012

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Dennis Walder

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This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage newcomers to the field with some of the main themes and issues that will concern them as readers of modern literary texts of all genres. The book provides material that is exciting, original, and above all accessible, rather than simply representative of a certain critical approach. It includes the views of leading critics such as Terry Eagleton, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Umberto Eco and Paul de Man, as well as the originating voices of writers…

Book details

List price: $59.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 548
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



General Introduction



General Approaches



Questioning the Canon


Introduction



Repossessing the Past: The Case for an Open Literary History




Canon and Period




Literature and the Rise of English




Women Poets




Literary Theory and the Black Tradition




Interpretation


Introduction



The Babel of Interpretations




Interpreting the Variorium




Who Cares About the Text?




Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory




The Interpreter's Freud




Commitment


Introduction



To Cambridge Women




Writing, Reading, and the Public




Commitment




The Essential Gesture




Right and Wrong Political Uses of Literature




Themes and Issues



Form and Genre


Introduction



Story and Narrative




Semiotics of Theatrical Performance




The Signs of Drama



Close Reading




Modernisms


Introduction



Remarks on Poetry




Order in Narrative




Towards a Semiotics of Literature




The Ideology of Modernism




Modernism and the Metropolis




Gender and Modernism




Literature and Nation


Introduction



The Lion and the Unicorn




Beyond a Boundary




Woman and Nationalism




The Intimate Enemy




The National Longing for Form




Literature and Ideology


Introduction



A Short Organum for the Theatre




Marxist Criticism




The Text Says What It Does Not Say




The Death of the Author




What is an Author?




Literature and Gender


Introduction



Woman and the Other




Language and Gender




Laugh of the Medusa




Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation




Introduction to Between Men




Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire




End of Empire


Introduction



The Discourse of the Orient




Behind the Cliches of Contemporary Theatre




Englands of the Mind




From the Victorian Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador




From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial


Introduction



On National Culture




Colonialist Criticism




History of the Voice




Post-Colonial Reconstruction




When Was The Post-Colonial?




Literature and History


Introduction



Theses on the Philosophy of History




History and Fiction




Introduction to Metahistory




The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method




The Keening Muse




The Hollow Miracle




Literary History and Literary Modernity




Literature and Value


Introduction



An Elergy for the Canon




The Exile of Evaluation