Critical terms for literary study

Critical terms for literary study

by Lentricchia, Frank McLaughlin, Thomas

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Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study. Each essay provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Critical terms for literary study / edited by Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.

Summary

Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study. Each essay provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1995.
  • Edition:2nd ed

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 486 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781849723541, 1849723540
  • oclc:ocn276348728
  • LC Classification:PN81
  • Dewey Decimal:801/.95/014

Table of Contents

Representation / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Structure / John Carlos Rowe -- Writing / Barbara Johnson -- Discourse / Paul A. Bové -- Narrative / J. Hillis Miller -- Figurative language / Thomas McLaughlin -- Performance / Henry Sayre -- Author / Donald E. Pease -- Interpretation / Steven Mailloux -- Intention / Annabel Patterson -- Unconscious / François Meltzer -- Determinacy/indeterminacy / Gerald Graff -- Value/evaluation / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Influence / Louis A. Renza -- Rhetoric / Stanley Fish -- Culture / Stephen Greenblatt -- Canon / John Guillory -- Literary history / Lee Patterson -- Gender / Myra Jehlen -- Race / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Ethnicity / Werner Sollors -- Ideology / James H. Kavanagh -- Popular culture / John Fisher -- Diversity / Louis Menand -- Imperialism/nationalism / Seamus Deane -- Desire / Judith Butler -- Ethics / Geoffrey Galt Harpham -- Class / Daniel T. O'Hara -- In place of an afterword : someone reading / Frank Lentricchia.

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