[PDF] Theory Into Practice A Reader In Modern Literary Criticism eBook

Author : Ryan Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1992-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349222445

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Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice in an accessible way. This will help a general literary readership gain a better understanding of the various types of theoretical criticism, see theory being applied to practice powerfully and persuasively, and encourage students to use theory in their own critical writing.

Author : K. M. Newton
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 1992
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780333567685

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This book brings together essays by major critics to help a general literary readership gain a better understanding of the various types of theory criticism, see theory being applied to practice powerfully and persuasively, and encourage students to use theory in their own critical writing. Essays by Victor Shklovsky, David Lodge, Stanley Fish and Catherine Belsey are included.

Author : K. M. Newton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312079963

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Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice in an accessible way. This will help a general literary readership gain a better understanding of the various types of theoretical criticism, see theory being applied to practice powerfully and persuasively, and encourage students to use theory in their own critical writing.

Author : Nigel Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317868005

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This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection’s aim to reflect contemporary preoccupations, the reader has expanded forward to include such newly emergent considerations as ecocriticism and post-theory. Secondly, with the aim of presenting as broad an account of modern theory as possible, the reader expands backwards to to take in exemplary pieces by formative writers and thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Marx, Freud and Virginia Woolf.. This radical expansion of content is prefaced by a wide-ranging introduction, which provides a rationale for the collection and demonstrates how connections can be made between competing theories and critical schools. The purpose of the collection remains that of introducing the reader to the guiding concepts of contemporary literary and cultural debate. It does so by presenting substantial extracts from seminal thinkers and surrounding them with the contextual materials necessary to a full understanding. Each selection has a headnote, which gives biographical details of the author and provides suggestions for further reading, and footnotes that help explain difficult references. The collection is ordered both historically and thematically and readers are encouraged to draw for themselves connections between essays and theories. Modern Criticism and Theory has long been regarded as a necessary collection. Now revised for the twenty first century it goes further and provides students and the general reader with a wide-ranging survey of the complex landscape of modern theory and a critical assessment of the way we think – and live – in the world today.

Author : Ann B. Dobie
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781111342081

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Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, THEORY INTO PRACTICE, International Edition provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses. This brief, practical introduction to literary theory explores core theories in a unique chronological format and includes an anthology of relevant fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to help bring those theories to life. Remarkably readable and engaging, the text makes even complex concepts manageable for those beginning to think about literary theory, and example analyses for each type of criticism show how real students have applied the theories to works included in the anthology. Now updated with the latest scholarship, including a full discussion of Ecocriticism and increased emphasis on American multicultural approaches, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides an essential foundation for thoughtful and effective literary analysis.

Author : Keith Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134822812

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Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory. The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding commentary, examples from literary and critical works, and a variety of exercises to provoke and engage you. Each chapter includes a glossary and annotated selection of suggested further reading. There is also a full bibliography. The authors cover the key issues and debates of literary theory, including: * Language, Linguistics and Literature * Structures of Literature * Literature and History * Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis and Criticism * Reading, Writing and Reception * Women, Literature and Criticism * Literature, Criticism and Cultural Identity Critical Theory and Practice is an refreshingly clear, up-to-date and eminently readable introduction to the subject. It not only guides you through the terminology and gives you a selection of the key passages to read, it also helps you engage with the theory and apply it in practice.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Building on the strengths of the first edition, this volume introduces the key concepts of current literary and cultural debate and presents substantial extracts from the period's most seminal thinkers.

Author : Philip Rice
Publisher : Hodder Arnold
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780340645857

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The third edition of this classic reader, like its successful predecessors, makes available in a single accessible volume examples of the writings of many key figures in the field together with seminal essays that have explored and extended the implications of critical theory. The new edition retains those essays and documents that can now be considered as part of the canon of modern literary theory and adds a wide selection of fresh material--New Historicist, Postmodernist, Postcolonialist, and retrospective accounts that reflect upon some of the critical issues now emerging in the retreat from earlier theoretical totalities.

Author : Raman Selden
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780582894105

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The fifth edition of this reader's guide remains true to the ideals of previous editions, providing a concise guide to contemporary literary theories. The book covers a vast range of differing forms of English literature.