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A handbook of critical approaches to literature / Wilfred L. Guerin ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Guerin, Wilfred LMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. Edition: 5th edDescription: xvi, 424 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 0195160177 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780195160178Subject(s): CriticismDDC classification: 801.95076 LOC classification: PN81 | .G8 2005Online resources: Ebook Fulltext | WorldCat details
Contents:
TOC Getting started: the precritical response -- First things first: textual scholarship, genres, and source study -- Historical and biographical approaches -- Moral and philosophical approaches -- The formalist approach -- The psychological approach: Freud -- Mythological and archetypal approaches -- Feminisms and gender studies -- Cultural studies -- The play of meaning(s): reader-response criticism, dialogics and structuralism and poststructuralism, including deconstruction.
Summary: Summary: Presented as a discussion of nearly all the popular critical literary theories, this study provides examples of their application to a selection of well-known literary works. A number of approaches are considered as well as the traditional.
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Online version:
Handbook of critical approaches to literature.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
(OCoLC)607537401

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Getting started: the precritical response --
First things first: textual scholarship, genres, and source study --
Historical and biographical approaches --
Moral and philosophical approaches --
The formalist approach --
The psychological approach: Freud --
Mythological and archetypal approaches --
Feminisms and gender studies --
Cultural studies --
The play of meaning(s): reader-response criticism, dialogics and structuralism and poststructuralism, including deconstruction.

Summary:
Presented as a discussion of nearly all the popular critical literary theories, this study provides examples of their application to a selection of well-known literary works. A number of approaches are considered as well as the traditional.

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Tahur Ahmed

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