Literary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance

ISBN-13: 9780333663028 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str.

Baker, William

Opis

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical application, plunges the student into the midst of a range of critical readings. Clearly argued and lucidly written, these essays offer the student reader an interactive introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.

Spis treści

Preface & Acknowledgements.- Overture Introduction; W. Baker & J. Wolfreys Snowed Up: A Mistletoe Story; R. Jefferies Richard Jefferies: A Brief Biography & 'Snowed Up': A Note on the Manuscript and its Discovery; D. Blomfield & W. Baker.- PART 1: FORMALIST CONCERNS.- 'Snowed Up': A Structuralist Reading; J. Cowley.- Snow Me Again: A Poststructuralist Narratology of 'Snowed Up'; M. Currie.- Does Edie Count?: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on 'Snowed Up'; J. Barker ENTR'ACTE 'Snowed Up: A Mistletoe Story': Feminist Approaches; R. Robbins.- PART 2: POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS.- Agriculture and Anarchy: A Marxist Interpretation of 'Snowed Up'; J. Maynard Power and Its Representations: A New Historicist Reading of Richard Jefferies' 'Snowed Up'; J. Brannigan.- ENCORE An 'Economics' of Snow and the Blank Page or, 'Writing' at the 'Margins': 'Deconstructing Richard Jefferies'?; J. Wolfreys.- Notes on Contributors.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion.