Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory

Name: Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
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ISBN: 9780631232735

ISBN-10: 0631232737

ISBN-13: 9780631232735

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gregory Castle

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This student-friendly introduction to the history, scope and application of literary theory presents a series of exemplary readings of particular literary texts as 'Jane Eyre','Heart of Darkness', 'Ulysees', 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'Midnight's Children'.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/14/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Rise of Literary Theory


Timeline


The Scope of Literary Theory


Critical Theory


Cultural Studies


Deconstruction


Ethnic Studies


Feminist Theory


Gender and Sexuality


Marxist Theory


Narrative Theory


New Criticism


New Historicism


Postcolonial Studies


Postmodernism


Poststructuralism


Psychoanalysis


Reader-Response Theory


Structuralism and Formalism


Key Figures in Literary Theory


Theodor Adorno


Louis Althusser


Mikhail Mikhailovich Bahktin


Roland Barthes


Jean Baudrillard


Walter Benjamin


Homi Bhabha


Pierre Bourdieu


Judith Butler


Hazel Carby


Helene Cixous


Teresa de Lauretis


Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari


Paul de Man


Jacques Derrida


Terry Eagleton


Frantz Fanon


Stanley Fish


Michel Foucault


Henry Louis Gates


Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar


Stephen Greenblatt


Stuart Hall


Donna Haraway


Bell hooks


Linda Hutcheon


Luce Irigaray


Wolfgang Iser


Fredric Jameson


Julia Kristeva


Jacques Lacan


Jean-Francois Lyotard


J. Hillis Miller


Edward Said


Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick


Elaine Showalter


Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak


Raymond Williams


Slavoj Zizek


Reading with Literary Theory


The Tempest



Ode on a Grecian Urn"



Jane Eyre



Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street



Heart of Darkness



Ulysses



To The Lighthouse



Their Eyes Were Watching God



"Leda and the Swan"



Endgame



Midnight's Children



Nights at the Circus



Conclusion: Reading Literary Theory


Recommendations for Further Study


Glossary


Index