Literary theory and criticism : an introduction / Anne H. Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Anne H., 1971- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Criticism--History.

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

Literature.

Literature--Theory, etc.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The second edition has been updated throughout and includes more coverage of Marxist theory, disability studies, critical race theory, and affect theory."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Theory vs. Criticism

Close Reading and Literary Studies

Criticism through the Ages

Literary Studies Comes to the University

The "Theory" Revolution

Theory and Criticism Today

Literary Form z

Literary Characters

The Importance of Context

The Identity of the Author

The Role of the Reader

Reading as Education, Reading as Entertainment

Diversity

The Uses of Theory and Criticism

Getting Started

Plato: The First Literary Theorist

Plato's Republic

Plato's Theory of Forms

The Allegory of the Cave

Speech vs. Writing

Aristotle

Classification

Narrative Form

Mimesis

Rhetoric

Horace's Poetic Art

Quintilian's Figures of Speech

Longinus's Sublime Aesthetics

Religion and Biblical Interpretation

Establishing a Canon

Medieval Scholasticism

The Four Levels of Interpretation

Maimonides and the Jewish Tradition

The Secularization of Interpretation

Boccaccio's Mythological Studies

Humanism

The Printing Press

Protestantism

The Growth of the Vernacular

New Forms

New Rules for Writing

Print Culture

Addison and Steele and the Birth of Modern Reviewing

Johnson and His Dictionary

The French Encyclopedia

Skepticism

Political Revolutions

Abolitionism

Early Feminism

Aesthetic Innovations

Idealism

Kant's Idealist Philosophy

Hegel's Ideas of History

Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Poetry

Realism, Nationalism, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Varieties of Realism

Arnold, Taine, and Literary Studies

Karl Marx

Decadent Aesthetics

Poe's Philosophy of Composition

Art for Art's Sake

Nietzsche's Radical Philosophy

Fin-de-siecle Fictions

The Philological Tradition

Saussure and Structuralist Linguistics

Russian Formalism

Anglo-American Formalisms

Practical and New Criticisms

Neo-Aristotelianism

Levi-Strauss and Structuralist Anthropology

Barthes and Structuralist Semiotics

Narratology

Derrida and Deconstruction

Deconstruction in America

Formalism Today

Historicist Approaches

Historicist Criticism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Historicism to the 1970s

The "New Historicism"

New Approaches to History and Culture

Foucault and Discourse

Greenblatt and the New Historicism

Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture

From Bibliography to Book History

Digital Humanities

Early Marxist Theory and Criticism

The Frankfurt School

French Marxism

British Cultural Studies

Later Marxist Theory and Criticism

Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies

Said and Orientalism

Later Postcolonial Theory

Gates and the African American Tradition

Critical Race Theory

The Diversity of Literary Traditions

Feminist Theory and Criticism

Founding Figures

Later Feminist Theorists

Sexuality and Queer Theory

Sedgwick and Butler

Disability Studies

Environmental Studies

Freud and Freudian Criticism

Jungian Criticism

Jacques Lacan

Julia Kristeva

Heirs to Lacan

Phenomenology

Hermeneutics

Reader-Response Criticism

Cognitive Approaches

Affect Theory

The Example of Hamlet

Hamlet's Organic Unity

Hamlet's Theatricality

Hamlet in Literary History

Hamlet and Class

Hamlet and Gender

Hamlet's Melancholy

The Example of Frankenstein

Frankenstein and Narratology

Frankenstein and History

Frankenstein and Political Approaches

Frankenstein and Homosociality

The Sublime, the Abject, the Uncanny

Moving Forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Stevens, Anne H., 1971- Literary theory and criticism.

ISBN:

9781554815371

1554815371

OCLC:

1249552581