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Literary and Cultural Theory From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications

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ISBN-10: 0395929199

ISBN-13: 9780395929193

Edition: 2001

Authors: Donald E. Hall

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This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification andApplication Essaysby well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Faulkner, and Angelou, represent the stated principles. The text helps students generate consistent, well-focused analyses based on any of ten critical methodologies, including New Criticism, Psychoanalytic Analysis, Deconstruction, Feminist Analysis, and New Historicism.
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Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 8/23/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Note
Each chapter begins with an Overview
Key Principles, and a Bibliography
An Application includes
Reading Prompts, the reading (listed below), and an Analysis of Application
Introduction: From Aesthetics to Cultural Studies: The Many Productive Forms of Critical Analysis
The New Criticism and Formalist Analysis Wordsworth and the Paradox of the Imagination
Reader-Response Analysis Perception, Temporality, and Action as Modes of Subjectivity
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