- 512 pages
- English
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A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory
About this book
This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example essays are included for each author/text presented.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction: Theory and Criticism at the Present Time
- 1 William Shakespeare: Hamlet
- 2 William Wordsworth: 'Ode - Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'
- 3 Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
- 4 George Eliot: Middlemarch
- 5 Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest
- 6 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- 7 James Joyce: Ulysses
- 8 Bertolt Brecht: Theory and Late Plays
- 9 Toni Morrison: Beloved
- 10 Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses
- Acknowledgements