Practising Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction

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Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Anglo-American Criticism 1 Moral Criticism (F. R. Leavis) 2 New Criticism 3 'Rhetoric of Fiction' Chapter 2 Russian Formalism 4 'Baring the Device' 5 'Making Strange' (Defamiliarisation) Chapter 3 Structuralism 6 Naturalisation 7 Binary Oppositions 8 Narrative Theory 9 Metaphor and Metonymy Chapter 4 Poststructuralism 10 The Semiotics of the Sign and the Subject 11 Psychoanalytic Criticism 12 Deconstruction 13 New Historicism Chapter 5 Reader-response Criticism 14 Phenomenology (Geneva School) and Deconstruction 15 Norman Holland and Roland Barthes 16 Jonathan Culler and Roland Barthes 17 Wolfgang Iser 18 Hans Robert Jauss Chapter 6 Marxist and Feminist Criticism 19 Marxist and Feminist Criticism (Class and Gender) 20 Feminist Criticism (Reading as a Woman) 21 Feminist Criticism (Writing as a Woman) 22 Marxist Criticism (Literature and Ideology) 23 Marxism and Modernism (Lukács and Brecht) 24 Marxist Criticism (Class Struggle and Bakhtin) Exercises References Index