Beginning Theory: Workbook and Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (Beginnings)

Barry, Peter

ISBN 10: 0719043263 / ISBN 13: 9780719043260

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 1995

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Unblemished Paperback.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 140688-11

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Beginning Theory: Workbook and Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (Beginnings)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0719043263
• ISBN-13: 9780719043260
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include:
Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O’Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes ‘loco-specific’ chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on ‘post-industrial’ cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee.

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Reseña del editor

An introduction to literary and cultural theory for beginners. The emphasis is on "theory in practice" with exercises and questions to help the student understand the methodology and practice of literary theory. Topics covered include: liberal humanism; Marxism; new historicism; cultural materialism; postcolonialism; feminism; queer theory; structuralism; postmodernism; stylistics; psychoanalytic theory.