Theory of Literature

Name: Theory of Literature
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ISBN: 9780300180831

ISBN-10: 0300180837

ISBN-13: 9780300180831

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul H. Fry

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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 is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and Structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist and historicist approaches, theories of social identity, Neo-pragmatism and theory. By incorporating philosophical and social…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276



Preface



Introduction: The Prehistory and Rise of "Theory"



Introduction Continued: Theory and Functionalization


First Reflections On Interpretation And Reading



Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle



Configurative Reading


Text And Structure



The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork



The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms



Russian Formalism



Semiotics and Structuralism



Linguistics and Literature



Deconstruction I: Jacques Derridap123



Deconstruction II: Paul de Man


Author (Reader) And Psyche



Freud and Fiction



Jacques Lacan in Theory



Influence



The Postmodern Psyche


The Social Context



The Social Permeability of Reader and Text



The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory



The Political Unconscious



The New Historicism



The Classical Feminist Tradition



African American Criticism



Postcolonial Criticism



Queer Theory and Gender Performativity



The Institutional Construction of Literary Study


Theory Con And Pro



The End of Theory? Neo-Pragmaism



Conclusion: Who Doesn't Hate Now?


Appendix: Passages Referenced in lectures


Notes


The Varieties of Interpretation: A Guide to Further Reading in Literary Theory



Index