Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
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Presents the eleven basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this text explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism, provides a clear methodology for writing essays according to each school's beliefs and tenets, and features accessible student-generated sample essays.
1Defining criticism, theory, and literature12A historical survey of literary criticism203Russian formalism and new criticism504Reader-oriented criticism725Modernity and postmodernism : structuralism and deconstruction966Psychoanalytic criticism1427Feminism1678Marxism1919Cultural poetics or new historicism21210Cultural studies : postcolonialism, African-American criticism, and queer theory233Literary selections270
