Literary theory : a guide for the perplexed /

Providing a thorough and accessible guide to the major types of critical theories, this book uses everyday language and real-world examples to explain the premises, applications, implications and debates surrounding structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, queer theory, postco...

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Main Author: Klages, Mary (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Continuum, 2006.
Series:Guides for the perplexed.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a What is 'literary theory?' -- Humanist literary theory : Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold -- Structuralism : Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss and 'the structural study of myth', Interlude : Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism -- Deconstruction : Binary opposition, The role of the center, Bricolage -- Psychoanalysis : Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Interlude : 'self' to 'subject' -- Feminism : 'Pre-poststructuralist' feminist literary theory, Poststructuralist feminist literary theory, Hélène Cixous and 'The laugh of the Medusa', Luce Irigaray and 'This sex which is not one' -- Queer theory : Flexible sexuality?, Gay/lesbian studies, Interlude : history to historicism, Humanist history, New historicism -- Ideology and discourse : Marxist theory : a few basics, Louis Althusser and ideology, Mikhail Bakhtin and 'Discourse in the novel', Michel Foucault : discourse, power/knowledge, and the author function -- Race and Postcolonialism : Colonialism and 'English', Henry Louis Gates, Jr and 'The signifying monkey', Postcolonialism and Orientalism, Homi Bhaba and 'The location of culture', Gloria Anzaldúa and 'Borderlands/La frontera' -- Postmodernism : Modernity, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Coda : what now? 
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