Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books

Cover of Literary Criticism in the 21st Century
by Vincent B. Leitch
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ranciere continue to be central to literary studies. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the...
Cover of Critical Theory Today

Critical Theory Today

A User-Friendly Guide

by Lois Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014

This thoroughly updated third edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism;...
Cover of Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism
by Ryan Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1992

Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice...
Cover of ENGL A337 Critical Approaches to Literature
by Lois Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018

This thoroughly updated third edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism;...
Cover of A Companion to Literary Theory
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018

Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Arranged...
Cover of Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction
by Sara Upstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create...
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Literary Criticism and Theory

From Plato to Postcolonialism

by Pelagia Goulimari
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers...
Cover of Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present
by Chris Baldick
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of...
Cover of Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present
by M. A. R. Habib
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism...
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Psychoanalytic Criticism

A Reappraisal

by Elizabeth Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud...
Cover of Literary Theory: The Basics
by Hans Bertens
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

This third edition of Hans Bertens’ bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics...
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An Introduction to Criticism

Literature - Film - Culture

by Michael Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such...
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Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

Between Literature and Mind

by Benjamin H. Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a literary scholar, proposes that a new form of...
Cover of The Cultural Milieu of Addison's Literary Criticism
by Lee Andrew Elioseff
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

The whole history of literary criticism is illuminated by this analysis of one English critic’s work. It is, in effect, a literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature? Initially,...
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