Literary Theory The Basics

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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 including:reception theory and reader response theorythe new criticism of postmodernismthe 'after theory' debatepost-humanism, biopolitics and animal studiesaestheticsLiterary Theory: The Basics he…

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Full title :Literary Theory The Basics.

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Publication Date:2013.
Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:Hoboken
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource (285 pages)

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ISBN:9781135052980, 1135052980
oclc:ocn860625993
LC Classification:PN94 .B47 2013
Dewey Decimal:801.950904

Cover; Literary Theory; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Reading for meaning: practical criticism and New Criticism; 2 Reading for form I: formalism and early structuralism, 1914-60; 3 Reading for form II: French structuralism, 1950-75; 4 Political reading: class, gender, and race in the 1970s and 1980s; 5 The poststructuralist revolution: Derrida and deconstruction; 6 Poststructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, French feminism, and postmodernism; 7 Literature and culture: cultural studies, the new historicism, and cultural materialism.

8 Postcolonial criticism and theory9 Sexuality, literature, and culture; 10 Posthumanism, ecocriticism, and animal studies; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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