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

Contributor(s): Guerin, Wilfred L Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. Edition: 5th edDescription: xvi, 424 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 0195160177 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): CriticismDDC classification: 801.95076 LOC classification: PN81 | .G8 2005Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | WorldCat details | E-Book Fulltext

Contents:

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. TOC

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
E-Book	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU E-book	Non-fiction	801.95076 HAN 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. TOC

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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