A handbook of critical approaches to literature
By: Wilfred L. Guerin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Guerin, Wilfred L.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started: the precritical response. Setting -- Plot -- Character -- Structure -- Style -- Atmosphere -- Theme -- First things first: textual scholarship, genres, and source study. First, a note on traditional approaches -- Three foundational questions -- Historical and biographical approaches. General observations -- Historical and biographical approaches in practice -- Moral and philosophical approaches. General observations -- Moral and philosophical approaches in practice -- The formalist approach. Reading a poem : an introduction to the formalist approach -- The process of formalist analysis : making the close reader -- A brief history of formalist criticism -- Constants of the formalist approach : some key concepts, terms, and devices -- The formalist approach in practice -- Limitations of the formalist approach -- The Psychological approach : Freud. Aims and principles -- The psychological approach in practice -- Other possibilities and limitations of the psychological approach -- Mythological and archetypal approaches. Definitions and misconceptions -- Some examples of archetypes -- Myth criticism in practice -- Limitations of myth criticism -- Feminisms and gender studies. Feminisms and feminist literary criticism : definitions -- Gender studies -- Feminisms in practice -- The future of feminist literary studies and gender studies : some problems and limitations -- Cultural Studies. What Is (or are) ``cultural studies''? -- Five types of cultural studies -- Cultural studies in practice -- Limitations of cultural studies -- The play of meaning(s): reader-response criticism, dialogics, and structuralism and poststructuralism, including deconstruction. Reader-response criticism -- Dialogics -- Structuralism and postructuralism, including deconstruction. Appendix A : “To His Coy Mistress” / Andrew Marvell -- Appendix B : “Young Goodman Brown” / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Appendix C : “Everyday Use: for your grandmama'' / Alice Walker