Literary Criticism and Theory From Plato to Postcolonialism 1st Edition by Pelagia Goulimari 1135053014 9781135053017
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ISBN 10: 1135053014
ISBN 13: 9781135053017
Author: Pelagia Goulimari
This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader’s critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.
Literary Criticism and Theory From Plato to Postcolonialism 1st Table of contents:
1 Mimēsis Plato and the poet
Plato’s literary theory: Ion, Republic, Phaedrus
Modern Platonic variations
Conclusion
Further reading
2 Aristotle and tragedy From Poetics to postcolonial tragedy
Reading Aristotle’s Poetics
Modern tragedy
Conclusion
Further reading
3 Medieval and Renaissance criticism From mimesis to creation
The medieval sign: Christian allegory
Renaissance humanism
Appendix: Byzantine literary criticism
Conclusion
Further reading
4 The Enlightenment and Romanticism Reason and imagination
David Hume and Edmund Burke
Mary Wollstonecraft
Immanuel Kant
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley
G. W. F. Hegel
Appendix on the rise of the mass media
Conclusion
Further reading
5 Modernity, multiplicity and becoming
Karl Marx and George Eliot: revolution and reform
Baudelaire’s modernité, Arnold’s “culture”, Nietzsche’s multiperspectivism
Late Victorian Aestheticism and Mallarmé
Conclusion
Further reading
6 Freud and psychoanalytic criticism The self in fragments
The self in psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Conclusion
Further reading
7 Defamiliarization, alienation, dialogism and montage
From Saussure’s semiology to Bakhtin’s dialogism: Saussure versus Du Bois, Woolf, Shklovsky, Jakobson and Bakhtin
From organic unity to alienation and montage: modernist German Marxism
Conclusion
Further reading
8 Decentering modernisms Newness, tradition, culture and society
T. S. Eliot
I. A. Richards
Virginia Woolf
William Empson
F. R. Leavis
Raymond Williams
Postcolonial canons, postcolonial critiques
The New Left and cultural studies
Decentering modernisms: modernist studies today
Conclusion
Further reading
9 Twentieth-century North American criticism Close reading to interpretation, modernism to postmodernism, History to histories
Harlem Renaissance
From close reading to interpretation: New Criticism, Northrop Frye, reader-response theory (Stanley Fish)
The new social movements, the Black Aesthetic Movement and feminist criticism
Postmodernism
Conclusion
Further Reading
10 Poetry and hermeneutics, critique and dissonant composition, freedom and situation
After the Holocaust: Heidegger, the Frankfurt School and the Constance School
Existentialism (Sartre, Beauvoir, Fanon): freedom and situation
Conclusion
Further reading
11 From structuralism to poststructuralism Text, power, minor literature, deconstruction
Roland Barthes
Pierre Macherey
Michel Foucault
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Jacques Derrida
Conclusion
Further reading
12 Poststructuralist deviations Mimicry, resignification, contrapuntal reading, the subaltern, Signifyin(g), hybridity
Feminist poststructuralisms
Poststructuralism, postcolonial theory and race: Said, Spivak, Gates, Bhabha, Young
Conclusion
Further reading
Bibliography
Index
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