How to interpret literature
Subtitle: critical theory for literary and cultural studies
By: Robert Dale Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780199331161
Subjects: Criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. New criticism. Before new criticism ; Key concepts for new critical interpretation ; Historicizing the new criticism : rethinking literary unity ; The intentional fallacy and the affective fallacy ; How to interpret : a new critical example ; The influence of new criticism; title: 3. Structuralism. Key concepts in structuralism ; How to interpret : structuralism in cultural and literary studies ; The death of the author; title: How to interpret : the detective novel ; Structuralism, formalism and literary history ; The structuralist study of narrative : narratology ; How to interpret : focalization and free indirect discourse ; Narrative syntax, and metaphor and metonymy; title: 4. Deconstruction. Key concepts in deconstruction ; How to interpret : a deconstructionist example ; Writing, speech, and différance ; Deconstruction beyond Derrida ; Deconstruction, essentialism, and identity ; How to interpret : furhter deconstrucionist examples; title: 5. Psychoanalysis. Clinical psychoanalysis : Key concepts in psychoanalysis :  the psychoanalytic understanding of the mind ; Sigmund Freud ; How to interpret : models of psychoanalytic interpretation ; From The interpretation of dreams to the interpretation of literature ; How to interpret : further psychoanalytic examples ; Jacques Lacan ; How to interpret : a Lacanian example; title: 6. Feminism. What is feminism? ; Early feminist criticism ; Sex and gender ; Feminisms ; How to interpret : feminist examples ; Feminism and visual pleasure ; Intersectionality and the interdisciplinary ethos of contemporary feminism; title: 7. Queer studies. Key concepts in queer studies ; How to interpret : a queer studies example ; Queer studies and history ; Outing : writers, characters, and the literary closet ; Homosociality and homosexual panic ; Queer of color critique ; Questions that queer studies critics ask; title: 8. Marxism. Key concepts in Marxism ; Lukács, Gramsci, and Marxist interpretations of culture ; Contemporary Marxism, ideology, and agency ; How to interpret : an example from popular culture ; Variations in Marxist criticism ; How to interpret : further Marxist examples; title: 9. Historicism and cultural studies.  New historicism ; How to interpret : historicist examples ; Michel Foucault ; Cultural studies ; How to interpret : a cultural studies example ; Cultural studies, historicism, and literature; title: 10. Postcolonial and race studies. Postcolonialism ; From Orientalism to deconstruction : Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak ; How to interpret : a postcolonial studies example ; Race studies ; How to interpret : postcolonial and race studies examples ; Postcolonial and race studies and literary studies; title: 11. Reader response. Ideal, implied, and actual readers ; Structuralist models of reading and communication ; Aesthetic judgment, interpretive communities, and resisting readers ; Reception theory and reception history ; Paranoid, suspicious, and symptomatic reading versus surface reading ; Readers and the new technologies; title: 12. Recent and emerging developments : ecocriticism and disability studies. Ecocriticism and environmental criticism ; Disability studies ; A future for critical theory.