Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications
This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0395929199
ISBN13:9780395929193
Release Date:August 2000
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Length:338 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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Excellent resource for comparing different schools of literary criticism
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This was a terrific book for students of literary criticism. I myself went to a university that was completely devoted to deconstructionism, except for the South American department, which was heavily Marxist. You could go there for years and never hear a word about any other kind of literary criticism. This book really enhanced my education--and no, I didn't order it for a class. I just needed to know more about other schools of thought. This book explained them very well, and then gave lengthy exerpts of the texts that were suited to this kind of criticism. Because it gave a preview of the whole school of thought, then a complelling passage, then questions and analysis following each passage, I could really understand how the each form of criticism was applied to the relevant texts. No wonder I didn't care for deconstructionism (to put it as nicely as possible). Turns out I'm a semiotics gal.
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