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Twentieth-Century Literary Theory A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0312175892

ISBN-13: 9780312175894

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: K. M. Newton

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List price: $53.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Russian Formalism And Prague Structuralism
Art as Technique
The Dominant
The Object, Tasks and Methods of Literary History
Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts
The New Criticism And Leavisian Criticism
Poetry and Beliefs
The Formalist Critic
Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits
The Relevant Context of a Literary Text
Literary Criticism and Philosophy
Object, Feeling and Judgement
Hermeneutics
Language as Determination of the Hermeneutic Object
Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics
The Appeal to the Text: What are we Appealing to?
The Conflict of Interpretations
Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Disclosure
Linguistics Criticism
Linguistics and Poetics
Literature as Discourse
Structuralism And Semiotics
Definition of Poetics
Structuralism and Literary Criticism
Science versus Literature
Semiotics as a Theory of Reading
The Content and Structure of the Concept of 'Literature'
The Problem of Interpretation
Post-Structuralism
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
The Death of the Author
The System and the Speaking Subject
Lecture: 7 January 1976
The Resistance to Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Reading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution
Poetry, Revisionism and Repression
The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis
Marxist And Neo-Marxist Criticism
English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism
Critical Realism and Socialist Realism
The Author as Producer
Towards a Science of the Text
S/Z
On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act
Reception Theory And Reader-Response Criticism
Literary History as a sChallenge to Literary Theory
Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response
The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation
Interpreting the Variorum
Feminist Criticism
Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as Moral Criticism
Towards a Feminist Poetics
Sexual Politics and Critical Judgement
Conversations
Cultural Materialism And The New Historicism
Dominant, Residual and Emergent
Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture
Reading Dissidence
New Pragmatism
Against Theory
Consequences
Postmodernism
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Theorizing the Postmodern
Post-Colonial Criticism
Overlapping Territories, Enterwined Histories
The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse
Index