Theory of literature
By: Paul H. Fry
Series: The open Yale courses series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300180831
Subjects: Literature; Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Semiotics; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Description: "Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and Structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist and historicist approaches, theories of social identity, Neo-pragmatism and theory. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.