Literary criticism and theory / Pelagia Goulimari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goulimari, Pelagia.

Series:

Routledge concise histories of literature.

Routledge concise histories of literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History.

Criticism.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy--History.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature--Theory, etc.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

377 pages ; . 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from classical antiquity to the present. It is almost impossible to read or study literature without acknowledging its relationship to criticism and this guide shows how the two have been inextricable since Plato. Introducing theory and criticism through the texts themselves, Pelagia Goulimari examines: - A variety of key thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Foucault and Derrida - Topics and themes in the history of literary criticism such as mimesis and creation, inspiration, the emotions, reason, aesthetic, history, morality, ethics, culture and discourse - The main genres and movements in the history of literature including the epic, tragedy, comedy, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism - Cross-historical connections between theories and theorists and the dissemination, appropriation and creative misunderstanding of concepts, ideas and arguments. With handy features such as a glossary, annotated further reading, descriptive text boxes and instructive marginalia this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching theory and criticism for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Mimesis: Plato and the Poet 2

2 Aristotle and tragedy: from Poetics to postcolonial tragedy 25

3 Medieval and Renaissance criticism: from mimesis to creation 49

4 The Enlightenment and Romanticism: reason and imagination 76

5 Modernity, multiplicity and becoming 102

6 Freud and psychoanalytic criticism: the self in fragments 125

7 Defamiliarization, alienation, dialogism and montage 148

8 Decentering modernisms: newness, tradition, culture and society 175

9 Twentieth-century North American criticism: close reading to interpretation, modernism to postmodernism, History to histories 221

10 Poetry and hermeneutics, critique and dissonant composition, freedom and situation 254

11 From structuralism to poststructuralism: text, power, minor literature, deconstruction 285

12 Poststructuralist deviations: mimicry, resignification, contrapuntal reading, the subaltern, Signifyin(g), hybridity 310.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415544313

0415544319

9780415544320

0415544327

OCLC:

778425295