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ISBN(s): 9780415396707, 0415396700
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Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415396700 
ISBN 13: 9780415396707
Author: Hans Bertens

Providing the ideal first step in understanding the often bewildering world of literary theory, this text is an easy to follow and clearly presented introduction to this fascinating area., With a new introduction and fully updated pointers to further reading, this second edition of Hans Bertens’ bestselling book is a must-have guide to the world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to post-modernism and new historicism it includes new coverage of: the latest developments in post-colonial and cultural theory literature and sexuality the latest schools of thought, including eco-criticism and post-humanism the future of literary theory and criticism. Literary Theory: The Basicsis an essential purchase for anyone who wants to know what literary theory is and where it is going., With a new introduction and fully updated pointers to further reading, this second edition of Hans Bertens’ bestselling book is a must-have guide to the world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to post-modernism and new historicism it includes new coverage of: the latest developments in post-colonial and cultural theory literature and sexuality the latest schools of thought, including eco-criticism and post-humanism the future of literary theory and criticism. Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential purchase for anyone who wants to know what literary theory is and where it is going.

Literary Theory the Basics 2nd Table of contents:

1. Introduction: What is Literary Theory?

  • Defining Literary Theory

  • The Role of Literary Criticism

  • Theoretical Approaches to Texts

  • Literary Theory as a Dynamic Discipline

2. Classical Literary Theory

  • Aristotle’s Poetics

  • Plato and the Allegory of the Cave

  • The Role of Drama and Tragedy

  • Classical Ideas about Poetry and Truth

3. Formalism and New Criticism

  • Russian Formalism: The Defamiliarization of the Everyday

  • American New Criticism: Close Reading and the Text

  • Key Formalist Concepts: ‘Defamiliarization,’ ‘Literariness,’ and ‘The Close Reading’

  • Key Figures: Viktor Shklovsky, Roman Jakobson, and Cleanth Brooks

4. Structuralism

  • The Birth of Structuralism: Language and Systems

  • Saussure’s Influence: The Signifier and the Signified

  • Levi-Strauss and the Mythological Structures

  • Barthes, Derrida, and Poststructuralism

5. Deconstruction

  • Key Concepts in Deconstruction

  • Derrida and the Play of Signifiers

  • Binary Oppositions and Hierarchies in Texts

  • The Role of ‘Presence’ and ‘Absence’ in Meaning-making

  • Critique of Logocentrism and Metaphysics of Presence

6. Psychoanalytic Criticism

  • Freud’s Influence on Literary Criticism

  • The Unconscious and Repression in Texts

  • Lacan and the Mirror Stage

  • The Role of Desire and Identity in Literature

  • Interpreting Characters, Dreams, and Symbolism Through Psychoanalysis

7. Marxist Criticism

  • The Concept of Ideology

  • Literature and Social Class

  • The Role of Economics in Shaping Literature

  • Marx’s Views on Culture and Ideology

  • Cultural Materialism and Historical Materialism

  • Key Figures: Louis Althusser, Terry Eagleton

8. Feminist Literary Theory

  • The History of Feminist Literary Criticism

  • Feminist Approaches: Women’s Voices, Identity, and Gender

  • Gender as a Social Construct in Literature

  • Feminist Criticism and Its Intersections with Other Theories

  • Key Figures: Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Elaine Showalter

9. Queer Theory

  • Theories of Sexuality and Gender Fluidity

  • Challenging Heteronormative Readings of Texts

  • The Role of Power in Defining Identity

  • Key Figures: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler

10. Postcolonial Criticism

  • The History of Colonialism and Its Cultural Impact

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Postcolonial Literature

  • The Concept of ‘Otherness’

  • Orientalism and the Subaltern

  • Key Figures: Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak

11. Ecocriticism

  • The Relationship Between Nature and Literature

  • The Environment as Text

  • Environmental Justice and Sustainability in Literary Theory

  • Key Figures: Lawrence Buell, Ursula Heise, Kate Soper

12. Cultural Studies

  • Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature and Culture

  • Culture, Power, and Identity

  • The Influence of Popular Culture

  • Reception Theory and the Reader’s Role

  • Key Figures: Stuart Hall, Raymond Williams

13. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

  • Reinterpretation of Historical Contexts

  • The Historicity of Texts

  • Power, Ideology, and Literature

  • Key Figures: Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose

14. The Posthuman and the Anthropocene

  • The Posthuman Condition in Literary Theory

  • Humanism and Its Critics

  • Literature and the Anthropocene

  • The Role of Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Ecology in Posthuman Literature

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