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Title Literary theory and criticism : an Oxford guide / edited by Patricia Waugh.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  801.95 L776LTA    Check Shelf
Description xx, 598 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : criticism, theory and anti-theory / Patricia Waugh -- Part I. Concepts of criticism and aesthetic origins -- Mimesis : ancient Greek literary theory / Andrea Nightingale -- Expressivity : the romantic theory of authorship / Andrew Bennett -- Interpretation : hermeneutics / Timothy Clark -- Value : criticism, canons, and evaluation / Patricia Waugh -- Part II. Criticism and critical practices in the twentieth century -- Literature and the academy / Chris Baldick -- I.A. Richards / Ann Banfield -- T.S. Eliot and the idea of tradition / Gareth Reeves -- Anthropology and/as myth in modern criticism / Michael Bell -- F.R. Leavis : criticism and culture / Gary Day -- Marxist aesthetics / Tony Davies -- William Empson : from verbal analysis to cultural criticism / David Fuller -- The new criticism / Stephen Matterson -- The intentional fallacy / Peter Lamarque -- Adorno and the Frankfurt School / Andrew Bowie -- Freud and psychoanalysis / Céline Surprenant -- The Russian debate on narrative / Gary Saul Morson -- Bakhtin and the dialogic principle / Lynne Pearce -- Form, rhetoric, and intellectual history / Faiza W. Shereen -- Literature into culture : cultural studies after Leavis / Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon -- Part III. Literary theory : movements and schools -- Structuralism and narrative poetics / Susan Onega -- Psychoanalysis after Freud / Josiane Paccaud-Huguet -- Deconstruction / Alex Thomson -- Feminisms / Fiona Tolan -- Postcolonialism / Elleke Boehmer -- Race, nation, and ethnicity / Kathleen Kerr -- Reconstructing historicism / Paul Hamilton -- Postmodernism / Chris Snipp-Walmsley -- Sexualities / Tony Purvis -- Science and criticism : beyond the culture wars / Christopher Norris --
Part IV. Futures and retrospects -- Peforming literary interpretation / K.M. Newton -- The responsibilities of the writer / Sèan Burke -- Mixing memory and desire : psychoanalysis, psychology, and trauma theory / Roger Luckhurst -- Theories of the gaze / Jeremy Hawthorn -- Anti-canon theory / David Punter -- Environmentalism and ecocriticism / Richard Kerridge -- Cognitive literary criticism / Alan Richardson -- Writing excess : the poetic principle of post-literary culture / Scott Wilson.
Summary This volume offers a comprehensive account of modern literary criticism, presenting the field as part of an ongoing historical and intellectual tradition. Featuring thirty-nine specially commissioned chapters from an international team of esteemed contributors, it fills a large gap in the market by combining the accessibility of single-authored selections with a wide range of critical perspectives.
Subject Criticism -- History.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Added Author Waugh, Patricia.
ISBN 0199291330 alkaline paper
0199258368 paperback alkaline paper
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