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Twentieth-century literary theory
a reader
Abstract
A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter.
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"Art as technique"
pp.3-5
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_1"The dominant"
pp.6-10
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_2"The object, tasks, and methods of literary history"
pp.10-14
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_3"Aesthetic function, norm, and value as social facts"
pp.15-18
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_4"Poetry and beliefs"
pp.22-26
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_5"The formalist critic"
pp.26-30
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_6"Formalist criticism: its principles and limits"
pp.30-34
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_7"The relevant context of a literary text"
pp.34-37
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_8"Literary criticism and philosophy"
pp.37-40
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_9"Object, feeling and judgement: F. R. Leavis"
pp.41-44
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_10"language as determination of the hermeneutic object"
pp.47-51
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_11"Three dimensions of hermeneutics"
pp.51-56
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_12"The appeal to the text: what are we appeaking to?"
pp.57-60
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_13"The conflict of interpretations"
pp.60-63
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_14"Breaking the circle: hermeneutics as dis-closure"
pp.64-69
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_15"Linguistics and poetics"
pp.71-77
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_16"Literature as discourse"
pp.77-82
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_17"Definition of poetics"
pp.86-89
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_18"Structuralism and literary criticism"
pp.89-93
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_19"Science versus literature"
pp.94-98
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_20"Semiotics as a theory of reading"
pp.98-102
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_21"The content and structure of the concept of "literature""
pp.102-105
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_22"The problem of interpretation"
pp.106-111
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_23"Structure, sign, and play in the discourse of the human sciences"
pp.115-120
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_24"The death of the author"
pp.120-123
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_25"The system and the speaking subject"
pp.124-129
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_26"Lecture: 7 January 1976"
pp.129-135
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_27"The resistance to theory"
pp.135-141
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_28"Reading and identity: a psychoanalytic revolution"
pp.143-148
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_29"Poetry, revisionism, and repression"
pp.148-152
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_30"The madness of interpretation"
pp.153-157
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_31"English poets"
pp.160-163
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_32"Critical realism and socialist realism"
pp.163-166
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_33"The author as producer"
pp.167-171
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_34"Towards a science of the text"
pp.171-176
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_35"On interpretation"
pp.181-186
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_37"Literary history as a challenge to literary theory"
pp.189-194
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_38"Indeterminacy and the reader's response"
pp.195-199
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_39"The subjective character of critical interpretation"
pp.200-203
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_40Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1997
Pages: 203
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2
ISBN (hardback): 978-0-333-67742-1
ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-25934-2
Full citation:
Newton K. M. (1997) Twentieth-century literary theory: a reader. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.