Literary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance - Couverture rigide

Baker, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814712940 ISBN 13 : 9780814712948

Editeur : New York University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyze and interpret the text. In Literary Theories William Baker and Julian Wolfreys challenge the outdated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading itself. Maintaining that the best way to learn is through practical application, the editors have assembled a volume of essays that plunges the student into the midst of a range of critical readings.
Each essay in the book explores a previously unpublished short story by Richard Jeffries, also included in the volume, from a different theoretical perspective, thereby presenting students with New Historicist, Marxist, feminist, structuralist, post- structuralist, psychoanalytic, and Derridean methods of analysis and interpretation.
Cogently argued and lucidly written, these essays offer the student reader an interactive introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink the acts of reading, writing, and interpretation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Baker is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. Julian Wolfreys is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Dundee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814712940
• ISBN 13: 9780814712948
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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