Contemporary Literary Theory

Name: Contemporary Literary Theory
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ISBN: 9780870236426

ISBN-10: 0870236423

ISBN-13: 9780870236426

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Authors: G. Douglas Atkins, Laura Morrow

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In this series of essays, the authors aim to analyze the relationship between contemporary literary theory and its practice. The authors have selected twelve of the most prominent, influential and far-reaching theoretical positions currently available, such as hermeneutics, archetypal criticism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism and Marxism. In a way that the general reader can easily access, Atikins and Morrow discuss the primary features, background, strategies and implications of those theories which are most influential at the present time.

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List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction Literary Theory, Critical Practice, and the Classroom


The New Criticism: Then and Now


Archetypal Criticism


Creating the World: Structuralism and Semiotics


Whirl without End: Audience-Oriented Criticism


Like the Glaze on a Katydid-Wing: Phenomenological Criticism


Hermeneutics



Critical Strategy / Strategic Criticism


Selected Bibliography


Reading after Freud


The Critical Quilt: Alternative Authority in Feminist Criticism


Political Criticism


Dialogic Criticism


Genealogical Critique: Michel Foucault and the System of Thought


Notes on Contributors