Literary theory : a complete introduction /
Upstone, Sara,
Literary theory : a complete introduction / - xv, 288 pages ; 25 cm. - Teach yourself books . - Teach yourself books .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
Introduction -- How to use this book -- 1. Aestheticism (The Pre-Raphaelites ; Art for art's sake ; Symbolism ; Decadence ; New aetheticism) -- 2. Formalism (Practical criticism ; The new criticism ; Continental formalism ; Defamiliarization ; Formalism today) -- 3. Reader response theory (Is there a text on this paper ; Rejecting formalism ; Unacceptable readings? ; 'Readerly' and 'writerly' ; Reader response theory today) -- 4. Marxism and post-Marxism (Base and superstructure ; Ideologies ; The Frankfurt School ; Post-Marxism) -- 5. Structuralism (The elements of language ; The sign ; 'The death of the author' ; Denotations and connotations ; Metaphor and metonymy ; Narratology) -- 6. Psychoanalytic criticism (Identity and the self ; Jungian psychoanalysis ; Lacanian psychoanalysis ; Psychoanalysis and literature) -- 7. Modernism nd surrealism (High modernism ; Surrealism ; When was/is modernism?) -- 8. Existentialism (Life and truth ; Nietzsche's Übermensch ; Authenticity and bad faith ; Absurdism) -- 9. Poststructuralism (Language and reality ; Deconstruction ; Poststructuralist politics? ; The heterotopia ; Intertextuality ; Gilles Deleuze) -- 10. Postmodernism (Postmodern culture ; The simulacrum ; Postmodern politics ; Postmodern literature ; Historiographic metafiction ; Post-postmodernism) 11. Feminist theory (First-wave feminism ; Second-wave feminism ; The rise of feminist literary theory ; French feminist theory ; Feminisms ; Third-wave feminisms and beyond) -- 12. Queer theory (Dancing to your own tune ; Queer ; Compulsory heterosexuality ; Gender performativity ; Undoing gender ; Queering literature) -- 13. Postcolonial criticism (The Empire writes back ; Postcolonial spaces ; Postcolonial forms ; Criticism of postcolonial theory) -- 14. Cultural studies (What is culture? ; Critiquing mass culture ; Interdisciplinarity ; Cultural identities) -- 15. Historicisms and materialisms (Historicisms ; Cultural materialism ; New materialism ; Decentring the human ; Ergodic literature) -- 16. Humanisms (Being human ; Humanist ethics ; Humanism and literature) -- 17. Ethical criticism (The ethical text and morality ; The ethical turn ; Three ethical moments ; Transversal poetics) -- 18. Genre theory (The influence of Aristotle ; The Chicago School ; The rhetoric of fiction ; The role of the reader ; 'Popular' literatures) -- 19. Ecocriticism (Studying the Earth ; The death of Nature ; Critiquing the human) -- Conclusion.
9781473611924
Literature--Philosophy.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Criticism--History.
801.95 / UPS
Literary theory : a complete introduction / - xv, 288 pages ; 25 cm. - Teach yourself books . - Teach yourself books .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
Introduction -- How to use this book -- 1. Aestheticism (The Pre-Raphaelites ; Art for art's sake ; Symbolism ; Decadence ; New aetheticism) -- 2. Formalism (Practical criticism ; The new criticism ; Continental formalism ; Defamiliarization ; Formalism today) -- 3. Reader response theory (Is there a text on this paper ; Rejecting formalism ; Unacceptable readings? ; 'Readerly' and 'writerly' ; Reader response theory today) -- 4. Marxism and post-Marxism (Base and superstructure ; Ideologies ; The Frankfurt School ; Post-Marxism) -- 5. Structuralism (The elements of language ; The sign ; 'The death of the author' ; Denotations and connotations ; Metaphor and metonymy ; Narratology) -- 6. Psychoanalytic criticism (Identity and the self ; Jungian psychoanalysis ; Lacanian psychoanalysis ; Psychoanalysis and literature) -- 7. Modernism nd surrealism (High modernism ; Surrealism ; When was/is modernism?) -- 8. Existentialism (Life and truth ; Nietzsche's Übermensch ; Authenticity and bad faith ; Absurdism) -- 9. Poststructuralism (Language and reality ; Deconstruction ; Poststructuralist politics? ; The heterotopia ; Intertextuality ; Gilles Deleuze) -- 10. Postmodernism (Postmodern culture ; The simulacrum ; Postmodern politics ; Postmodern literature ; Historiographic metafiction ; Post-postmodernism) 11. Feminist theory (First-wave feminism ; Second-wave feminism ; The rise of feminist literary theory ; French feminist theory ; Feminisms ; Third-wave feminisms and beyond) -- 12. Queer theory (Dancing to your own tune ; Queer ; Compulsory heterosexuality ; Gender performativity ; Undoing gender ; Queering literature) -- 13. Postcolonial criticism (The Empire writes back ; Postcolonial spaces ; Postcolonial forms ; Criticism of postcolonial theory) -- 14. Cultural studies (What is culture? ; Critiquing mass culture ; Interdisciplinarity ; Cultural identities) -- 15. Historicisms and materialisms (Historicisms ; Cultural materialism ; New materialism ; Decentring the human ; Ergodic literature) -- 16. Humanisms (Being human ; Humanist ethics ; Humanism and literature) -- 17. Ethical criticism (The ethical text and morality ; The ethical turn ; Three ethical moments ; Transversal poetics) -- 18. Genre theory (The influence of Aristotle ; The Chicago School ; The rhetoric of fiction ; The role of the reader ; 'Popular' literatures) -- 19. Ecocriticism (Studying the Earth ; The death of Nature ; Critiquing the human) -- Conclusion.
9781473611924
Literature--Philosophy.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Criticism--History.
801.95 / UPS