Modern Criticism and Theory

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"In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right." (David Lodge)
This reader is designed as a companion volume and in some sense sequel to David Lodge's 20th Century Literary Criticism: A Reader (Longman 1972). Since the earher book was compiled, the academic study of literature has been revolutionised by the impact of structuralism and post-structurahst theory. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader aims to provide, within the covers of a single book, a selection of important and representative work from all the major theoretical schools or tendencies in contemporary criticism, and to place them before the reader in two alternative orders: one historical, the other thematic.
The twenty-eight authors represented here are:— Ferdinand de Saussure Victor Shklovsky Roman Jakobson Gérard Genette Jacques Lacan Jacques Derrida Mikhail Bakhtin Tzvetan... Tovább

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"In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right." (David Lodge)
This reader is designed as a companion volume and in some sense sequel to David Lodge's 20th Century Literary Criticism: A Reader (Longman 1972). Since the earher book was compiled, the academic study of literature has been revolutionised by the impact of structuralism and post-structurahst theory. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader aims to provide, within the covers of a single book, a selection of important and representative work from all the major theoretical schools or tendencies in contemporary criticism, and to place them before the reader in two alternative orders: one historical, the other thematic.
The twenty-eight authors represented here are:— Ferdinand de Saussure Victor Shklovsky Roman Jakobson Gérard Genette Jacques Lacan Jacques Derrida Mikhail Bakhtin Tzvetan Todorov Roland Barthes Michel Foucault Wolfgang Iser Julia Kristeva Harold Bloom E D Hirsch Jr M H Abrams J HiUis Miller Hélene Cixous Edward Said Stanley Fish Elaine Showalter Paul De Man Fredric Jameson Terry Eagleton Catherine Belsey Geoffrey Hartman Juliet Mitchell Colin MacCabe Umberto Eco.
David Lodge is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Vissza