Critical Theory Today: A User-friendly Guide - Softcover

Tyson, Lois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415974100 ISBN 13: 9780415974103

Verlag: Routledge, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness.

This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lois Tyson is a Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415974100
• ISBN 13: 9780415974103
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 465
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