Literary Theory, A Very Short Introduction
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics', it steers a clear...
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics', it steers a clear and lucid path through an often impenetrable subject.
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Steering a clear and lucid path through an often impenetrable subject, this concise introduction to literary theory has been revised and updated, with new material about the 'death' of theory, the links between the theory of narrative and cognitive science, trauma theory and ecocriticism. The previous edition sold 142,000 copies.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Literary Theory, A Very Short Introduction “
- 1: What is theory?
- 2: What is literature and does it matter?
- 3: Literature and cultural studies
- 4: Language, meaning, and interpretation
- 5: Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry
- 6: Narrative
- 7: Performative language
- 8: Identity, identification, and the subject
- 9: Ethics and aesthetics
- Appendix: Theoretical schools and movements
- References
- Further Reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler taught at Cambridge University and Oxford University before moving to Cornell, where he is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature. His Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature, won MLA's Lowell Prize and established his reputation as analyst and expositor of critical theory. He has published short introductions to Ferdinand de Saussure and to Roland Barthes, but he is known especially for On Deconstruction and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, which has been translated into some 20 languages. He has been President of the American Comparative Literature Association and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2006.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Culler
- 2011, 2. Aufl., 192 Seiten, Maße: 11,1 x 17,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199691347
- ISBN-13: 9780199691340
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.10.2001
Sprache:
Englisch
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