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Theory of literature / Paul H. Fry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fry, Paul H.
- Series:
- Open Yale courses series
- The open Yale courses series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Semiotics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- "Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and Structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist and historicist approaches, theories of social identity, Neo-pragmatism and theory. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- First Reflections On Interpretation And Reading
- 3 Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle 27
- 4 Configurative Reading 39
- Text And Structure
- 5 The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork 55
- 6 The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms 68
- 7 Russian Formalism 82
- 8 Semiotics and Structuralism 95
- 9 Linguistics and Literature 108
- 10 Deconstruction I: Jacques Derridap123
- 11 Deconstruction II: Paul de Man 137
- Author (Reader) And Psyche
- 12 Freud and Fiction 153
- 13 Jacques Lacan in Theory 166
- 14 Influence 179
- 15 The Postmodern Psyche 192
- The Social Context
- 16 The Social Permeability of Reader and Text 207
- 17 The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory 220
- 18 The Political Unconscious 233
- 19 The New Historicism 246
- 20 The Classical Feminist Tradition 259
- 21 African American Criticism 272
- 22 Postcolonial Criticism 285
- 23 Queer Theory and Gender Performativity 299
- 24 The Institutional Construction of Literary Study 312
- Theory Con And Pro
- 25 The End of Theory? Neo-Pragmaism 329
- 26 Conclusion: Who Doesn't Hate Now? 342.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300180831
- 0300180837
- OCLC:
- 759174178
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